On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 18:20:48 -0500 Sam Stuewe <halosghost@archlinux.info> wrote:
As one of the maintainers of one of the hashcat packages, I am a firm believer that such programs should be allowed. They are not illegal, have plenty of legal and moral use cases and are widely available elsewhere (why put a non-universal constraint on a single set of programs with virtually no gain?).
I fully agree, such tools are useful in a lot of cases, with the argumentation that it can be misused compilers are also in a bad position, they create harmful executables from plain text files. No seriously, in case there are laws in your jurisdiction that forbid such tools don't install them. I don't work in the security business, but john, nmap and aircrack were extremely useful to convince people from previous generations to use stronger passwords and changing the kind of WLAN encryption. Also: I'm the guy currently maintaining john in [community]. (Yes it's ood and there is a jumbo for 1.80, but it runs stable on older x86_64 CPUs. Feel free to send me an updated PKGBUILD and I check it on my systems.)