John The Ripper MPI 1.7.2-bp17-mpi6

John The Ripper MPI is an updated version of Ryan Lims patch for john the ripper to support MPI, in addition to a large number of third party patches to support additional ciphers and such.
MPI allows you to use multiple processors on a single system, or a cluster of systems for cracking passwords using john the ripper. Incredibly usefull in these days of multi core processors.
A compatible MPI implementation is required.
Benchmarks
Dual Core Intel Core2 Duo, 2.16GHz, MacBook Pro MacOSX
John MPI - Version 1.7.2-bp17-mpi4, 2 threads
Benchmarking: Traditional DES [128/128 BS SSE2]... DONE
Many salts: 3433087.00 c/s real, 3636739.00 c/s virtual
Only one salt: 2852658.00 c/s real, 3021898.00 c/s virtual
Dual AMD Opteron 250 (2.2ghz), Gentoo Linux 64bit
John MPI - Version 1.7.2-bp17-mpi, 2 threads
Benchmarking: Traditional DES [128/128 BS SSE2-16]... DONE
Many salts: 2132632.00 c/s real, 2139034.00 c/s virtual
Only one salt: 1951692.00 c/s real, 1957552.00 c/s virtual
Version restrictions:
- If you use Gentoo, make sure you compile mpich2 _WITHOUT_ the "threads" use flag, otherwise john-mpi will fail to compile with undefined references to MPIU_Free and MPIU_Malloc
- If you use OpenMPI instead of mpich2, the SIGHUP signal doesnt get passed to john. It is necessary to send a SIGUSR1 instead.
Enhancements:
- Support for SIGUSR1 as well as SIGHUP, required for use with OpenMPI