Johnny Bravo!

Johnny is a GUI client for John. Since it adds a UI, it becomes much easier to use.

How to do it...

We learned how to use John in our previous recipe. Let's perform the following steps to use Johnny:

1. We will start Johnny by using the following command:

johnny

2. We load our password file by clicking on the Open Passwd File option and choosing the file from our computer:

3. As you can see in the following screenshot, our file has been loaded:

4. Now, we go to Options and choose the type of attack we want to perform:

5. We choose the format of the hash as shown in the following screenshot:

6. Once it is done, we click Start attack and we should see our password when it's cracked.

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