Install John the Ripper Jumbo

I've been following the instructions here for installing John the Ripper on my Macbook Pro (El Capitan). I've skipped the Iterm and Cuda sections (I have a Redeon GPU).

All is well until I run

make clean macosx-x86-64

Which gives me the error:

gcc -c -Wall -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include     -m64 -Wno-deprecated-declarations -funroll-loops dynamic_fmt.c
In file included from dynamic_fmt.c:69:
./sha.h:4:10: fatal error: 'openssl/sha.h' file not found
#include <openssl/sha.h>
         ^
1 error generated.
make[1]: *** [dynamic_fmt.o] Error 1
make: *** [macosx-x86-64] Error 2

How can I get it to compile?

I've read that it is better to use CommonCrypto API instead of OpenSSL. However, I'm not sure how to go about doing this. Is there a better solution?

Solution 1:

I had more luck using the latest Jumbro version (1.8.0.6).

To retrieve and compile:

git clone https://github.com/magnumripper/JohnTheRipper jumbo
cd jumbo/src
./configure --enable-mpi

Note there is no need to edit the Makefile to enable the MPI any more - the above command will get everything ready for building.

make clean

Boom - everything now working.

Solution 2:

You are missing the header files. If you have brew installed you can:

brew install openssl libyaml libffi

Solution 3:

Installation of John The Ripper on Catalina, as Silver was saying:

git clone https://github.com/magnumripper/JohnTheRipper jumbo
cd jumbo/src

Than I had the same problem at author of the post, and solved it with the following command:

make -s clean && make -sj4

At this stage I had a problem because of the ar / ran library (for some reason Homebrew changed the default PATH, I solved the issue by moving the rogue folder altogether),

sudo mv /usr/local/Cellar/cctools/855/bin/ranlib /opt/local/bin/ranlib-backup-2020-03-24
sudo mv /usr/local/Cellar/cctools/855/bin/ar /opt/local/bin/ar-backup-2020-03-24

You will find the specific location of your "rogue ar / ranlib" folder from your logs if you have a problem.

At this point I just launched:

../run/john --test=0

And boom it works.

After the installation I had another major problem, a perl related one concerning the Lzma package, if you have the same problem this four lines of code solved it for me:

sudo cpan Compress::Raw::Lzma
cpan Compress::Raw::Lzma
sudo cpan IO::Compress::Lzma
cpan IO::Compress::Lzma