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Special Forums UNIX and Linux Applications John the Ripper application question Post 302378979 by dday on Wednesday 9th of December 2009 08:54:45 AM
Old 12-09-2009
I have never used this application, but just reading the docs tells me that the answer is no. This is a password cracker that uses brute force to decrypt a password from a file, eg the passwd file in unix. It doesn't break or recover a password used to encrypt a file itself.
 

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