Fedora 15 Update: john-1.7.8-1.fc15

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-9552
2011-07-22 19:06:11
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Name        : john
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 1.7.8
Release     : 1.fc15
URL         : http://www.openwall.com/john
Summary     : John the Ripper password cracker
Description :
John the Ripper is a fast password cracker. Its primary purpose is to
detect weak Unix passwords, but a number of other hash types are
supported as well.

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Update Information:

This update contains several improvements and bugfixes that are explained in the upstream release notes: http://www.openwall.com/lists/john-users/2011/06/22/1
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Jul 18 2011 Till Maas <opensource at till.name> - 1.7.8-1
- Update to new release
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #700401 - john-1.7.8 is available
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700401
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update john' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
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