Re: Is this legal? [RFP: djohn -- Distributed password cracker]

2007-01-04 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Donnellan escribió: > Password cracking in itself has always been legal AFAIK. > > Using password crackers to crack other peoples systems without > permission (ie. illegally obtaining access) is definitely illegal. > > There are legitimate use

Is this legal? [RFP: djohn -- Distributed password cracker]

2007-01-03 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I was checking some old RFP's and I find this one. Is a little program that distribute the job of cracking passwords using John the Ripper. I think this is not totally legal to be packaged officially for Debian. Jose Luis, P.S. Please CC me you