The only reason why the hashcat team doesn't open source hashcat is because they don't want people to have the source. Probably because they want to keep the "fame" for themselves. Nothing else makes really sense.
I think I read somewhere that hashcat started as a fork of JtR or so?
Luckily hashcat is not so important that is _must_ be open source, like an OS, database, browser or so
Open source is also about teaching people how to program, or trust (backdoors and so). Many open source projects are so successful _because_ they are open source, they are more important than hashcat and it's a must that they are/stay open source.
Whether JtR is like 30% slower or so doesn't, at least for me, matter that much. For me matters more that JtR stays open source Anyone who can test the latest JtR against hashcat for PBKDF2 on a 7970 or so (I don't have a card)?
JtR doesn't use a forum software, that's kind of not so good for promotion. I like how I can edit my posts here on MyBB.
I think I read somewhere that hashcat started as a fork of JtR or so?
Luckily hashcat is not so important that is _must_ be open source, like an OS, database, browser or so
Open source is also about teaching people how to program, or trust (backdoors and so). Many open source projects are so successful _because_ they are open source, they are more important than hashcat and it's a must that they are/stay open source.
Whether JtR is like 30% slower or so doesn't, at least for me, matter that much. For me matters more that JtR stays open source
Anyone who can test the latest JtR against hashcat for PBKDF2 on a 7970 or so (I don't have a card)?JtR doesn't use a forum software, that's kind of not so good for promotion. I like how I can edit my posts here on MyBB.