John The Ripper

This is a benchmark of John The Ripper, which is a password cracker.

To run this test with the Phoronix Test Suite, the basic command is: phoronix-test-suite benchmark john-the-ripper.

Project Site

openwall.com

Source Repository

github.com

Test Created

6 December 2010

Last Updated

17 March 2023

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel 

Test Type

Processor

Average Install Time

26 Seconds

Average Run Time

2 Minutes, 27 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain + OpenSSL

Accolades

300k+ Downloads + 20k+ Public Benchmark Results

Supported Platforms


Public Result Uploads *Reported Test Completions **Reported Installs **Test Profile Page Views ***OpenBenchmarking.orgEventsJohn The Ripper Popularity Statisticspts/john-the-ripper2010.122011.052011.102012.032012.082013.012013.062013.112014.042014.092015.022015.072015.122016.052016.102017.032017.082018.012018.062018.112019.042019.092020.022020.072020.122021.052021.102022.032022.082023.012023.062023.112024.04500K1000K1500K2000K2500K
* Uploading of benchmark result data to OpenBenchmarking.org is always optional (opt-in) via the Phoronix Test Suite for users wishing to share their results publicly.
** Data based on those opting to upload their test results to OpenBenchmarking.org and users enabling the opt-in anonymous statistics reporting while running benchmarks from an Internet-connected platform.
*** Test profile page view reporting began March 2021.
Data updated weekly as of 29 April 2024.
MD519.2%WPA PSK18.7%Blowfish26.8%HMAC-SHA51216.2%bcrypt19.1%Test Option PopularityOpenBenchmarking.org

Revision History

pts/john-the-ripper-1.8.0   [View Source]   Fri, 17 Mar 2023 13:47:27 GMT
Update against John The Ripper Git due to no official releases in several years... Build fixes.

pts/john-the-ripper-1.7.2   [View Source]   Mon, 10 Feb 2020 11:53:21 GMT
pts-core now handles K to numeric conversion so drop this faulty result-definition handling for certain cases of dynamic K.

pts/john-the-ripper-1.7.1   [View Source]   Sat, 08 Feb 2020 10:14:09 GMT
Fix for MD5 test run (JtR appending K to result, update parser) and Cygwin fix for Windows.

pts/john-the-ripper-1.7.0   [View Source]   Fri, 21 Jun 2019 19:56:15 GMT
Update against upstream JtR 1.9.0-jumbo-1.

pts/john-the-ripper-1.6.2   [View Source]   Sat, 07 Apr 2018 20:53:08 GMT
Use gmake on BSDs

pts/john-the-ripper-1.6.1   [View Source]   Sat, 24 Mar 2018 18:01:13 GMT
Disable the configure native-tests to avoid some odd AVX-related build errors being reported on Linux systems

pts/john-the-ripper-1.6.0   [View Source]   Wed, 28 Feb 2018 11:30:09 GMT
Update against JTR 1.8.0-jumbo-1, prep initial Windows support.

pts/john-the-ripper-1.5.1   [View Source]   Sun, 10 Aug 2014 12:14:29 GMT
Support for building John The Ripper on non-x86 architectures. Change submitted by Michael Schloh.

pts/john-the-ripper-1.5.0   [View Source]   Fri, 10 Jan 2014 14:09:42 GMT
Update against upstream John The Ripper 1.8.0.

pts/john-the-ripper-1.4.1   [View Source]   Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:14:38 GMT
Disable the cache share since the latest JTR upstream version seems to have issues with the parsing when using the PTS cache share.

pts/john-the-ripper-1.4.0   [View Source]   Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:11:49 GMT
Update against John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 upstream plus use openssl-development external dependency.

pts/john-the-ripper-1.3.0   [View Source]   Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:45:27 GMT
Set the OMPFLAGS on make.

pts/john-the-ripper-1.2.0   [View Source]   Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:26:09 GMT
Update against John The Ripper 1.7.9 upstream.

pts/john-the-ripper-1.1.0   [View Source]   Sat, 27 Aug 2011 14:09:59 GMT
Update against upstream John 1.7.8.

pts/john-the-ripper-1.0.1   [View Source]   Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:53:59 GMT
Initial import into OpenBenchmarking.org

Suites Using This Test

Cryptography

C/C++ Compiler Tests

Multi-Core

CPU Massive

Server CPU Tests


Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

John The Ripper 1.9.0-jumbo-1

Test: Blowfish

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 4,742 public results since 21 June 2019 with the latest data as of 4 May 2024.

Below is an overview of the generalized performance for components where there is sufficient statistically significant data based upon user-uploaded results. It is important to keep in mind particularly in the Linux/open-source space there can be vastly different OS configurations, with this overview intended to offer just general guidance as to the performance expectations.

Component
Percentile Rank
# Compatible Public Results
Real C/S (Average)
100th
13
184588 +/- 2371
100th
28
183340 +/- 12756
100th
48
164668 +/- 22364
100th
3
164410 +/- 326
100th
3
155197 +/- 1960
99th
3
141310 +/- 19082
99th
16
131707 +/- 8534
99th
7
121146 +/- 1128
98th
18
116536 +/- 2678
98th
5
116351 +/- 86
98th
6
106533 +/- 10145
98th
12
105477 +/- 7252
97th
7
102046 +/- 1194
97th
3
100094 +/- 1054
97th
7
97313 +/- 562
97th
11
96295 +/- 667
96th
3
91431 +/- 101
96th
3
91421 +/- 881
96th
8
86132 +/- 8887
95th
32
84599 +/- 929
95th
3
83926 +/- 327
95th
4
82709 +/- 9166
95th
4
82636 +/- 5363
95th
12
82571 +/- 9346
95th
15
81559 +/- 10412
94th
3
79374 +/- 5005
94th
3
79291 +/- 23
94th
10
74136 +/- 510
93rd
12
71820 +/- 759
92nd
7
69689 +/- 305
92nd
10
68230 +/- 2076
92nd
7
67877 +/- 1467
92nd
11
66954 +/- 2731
91st
21
63116 +/- 5631
90th
6
60714 +/- 6328
90th
17
60650 +/- 2188
90th
10
60581 +/- 594
90th
9
60482 +/- 107
90th
3
60192 +/- 80
89th
6
52531 +/- 196
89th
3
51263 +/- 3848
88th
10
50779 +/- 7144
88th
7
50774 +/- 9
88th
4
49275 +/- 626
88th
3
49103 +/- 350
88th
7
48725 +/- 651
87th
15
47172 +/- 6573
87th
3
46924 +/- 6567
87th
8
44965 +/- 327
87th
6
44708 +/- 5396
86th
4
43265 +/- 338
86th
10
43145 +/- 299
86th
10
43109 +/- 1309
86th
10
42784 +/- 652
84th
7
37602 +/- 384
84th
3
37540 +/- 3056
84th
45
37218 +/- 2107
84th
5
37189 +/- 1152
83rd
7
35190 +/- 26
83rd
5
34762 +/- 3314
83rd
3
34600 +/- 207
82nd
8
33829 +/- 748
82nd
3
33745 +/- 3128
81st
5
31307 +/- 3743
81st
3
30450 +/- 81
80th
31
29888 +/- 4134
80th
51
29497 +/- 1366
79th
13
29074 +/- 416
78th
5
27912 +/- 149
77th
10
27351 +/- 151
77th
6
27294 +/- 1373
77th
5
27209 +/- 755
77th
5
26660 +/- 1464
77th
22
26491 +/- 220
76th
5
25704 +/- 149
Mid-Tier
75th
< 24294
75th
4
24164 +/- 336
75th
17
23682 +/- 2662
75th
3
22830 +/- 1846
74th
40
22570 +/- 1366
74th
12
21744 +/- 287
73rd
11
21399 +/- 90
72nd
3
20806 +/- 183
72nd
20
20779 +/- 517
72nd
12
20715 +/- 152
72nd
3
20597 +/- 850
71st
10
20363 +/- 598
70th
5
19601 +/- 254
70th
20
19531 +/- 1421
69th
3
18928 +/- 1916
69th
5
18907 +/- 1815
69th
9
18766 +/- 21
69th
3
18548 +/- 22
69th
12
18424 +/- 296
68th
4
18348 +/- 757
67th
49
16993 +/- 1453
66th
8
16022 +/- 367
65th
14
15701 +/- 2141
65th
24
15680 +/- 340
65th
8
15174 +/- 470
64th
3
15101 +/- 271
64th
7
14650 +/- 1419
64th
3
14616 +/- 10
64th
4
14547 +/- 161
64th
6
14400 +/- 1435
63rd
4
13986 +/- 990
62nd
5
13823 +/- 55
61st
7
13137 +/- 1660
60th
11
13038 +/- 202
60th
5
12977 +/- 13
60th
15
12795 +/- 169
59th
4
12563 +/- 752
59th
3
12069 +/- 21
59th
3
12040 +/- 17
59th
5
12030 +/- 105
58th
12
11971 +/- 934
58th
5
11787 +/- 626
58th
5
11608 +/- 105
57th
6
11208 +/- 757
56th
11
10929 +/- 102
54th
3
10395 +/- 1413
54th
3
10164 +/- 551
54th
3
9952 +/- 2
53rd
3
9835 +/- 467
53rd
14
9526 +/- 811
53rd
4
9479 +/- 1063
53rd
7
9461 +/- 146
53rd
3
9436 +/- 57
52nd
7
9174 +/- 65
51st
11
8454 +/- 745
51st
6
8367 +/- 140
Median
50th
8221
50th
9
8219 +/- 272
50th
4
7810 +/- 320
49th
5
7608 +/- 138
49th
7
7428 +/- 1095
49th
11
7287 +/- 1052
48th
3
7250 +/- 474
48th
5
7180 +/- 91
48th
5
7169 +/- 881
47th
5
6813 +/- 434
47th
6
6703 +/- 631
47th
3
6696 +/- 82
45th
4
6410 +/- 1
45th
3
6355 +/- 669
45th
12
6287 +/- 492
45th
6
6279 +/- 88
43rd
3
5873 +/- 389
43rd
3
5791 +/- 846
43rd
5
5772 +/- 448
43rd
3
5646 +/- 274
42nd
5
5551 +/- 802
42nd
4
5533 +/- 2
41st
4
5311 +/- 76
41st
3
5300 +/- 694
41st
7
5287 +/- 789
41st
3
5286 +/- 182
41st
11
5279 +/- 166
40th
4
5004 +/- 561
40th
3
4969 +/- 2
40th
18
4795 +/- 512
39th
13
4740 +/- 28
39th
6
4675 +/- 428
39th
5
4671 +/- 116
39th
3
4570 +/- 535
39th
29
4562 +/- 34
38th
3
4500 +/- 217
37th
6
4323 +/- 170
37th
3
4264 +/- 536
37th
4
4189 +/- 256
36th
4
3986 +/- 551
36th
4
3757 +/- 550
35th
3
3648 +/- 148
33rd
4
2929 +/- 2
33rd
8
2817 +/- 248
32nd
3
2743 +/- 3
31st
3
2551 +/- 52
31st
3
2522 +/- 111
31st
5
2453 +/- 331
30th
4
2319 +/- 52
30th
20
2165 +/- 19
29th
3
2130 +/- 144
27th
7
2021 +/- 254
Low-Tier
25th
< 1965
20th
4
1484 +/- 60
18th
15
1446 +/- 7
16th
9
1371 +/- 14
16th
8
1370 +/- 58
10th
9
1017 +/- 23
3rd
4
502 +/- 12
3rd
3
501 +/- 2
OpenBenchmarking.orgDistribution Of Public Results - Test: Blowfish4742 Results Range From 18 To 217270 Real C/S1843648710130561740221748260943044034786391324347847824521705651660862652086955473900782468259286938912849563099976104322108668113014117360121706126052130398134744139090143436147782152128156474160820165166169512173858178204182550186896191242195588199934204280208626212972217318400800120016002000

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (John The Ripper 1.9.0-jumbo-1 - Test: Blowfish) has an average run-time of 3 minutes. By default this test profile is set to run at least 3 times but may increase if the standard deviation exceeds pre-defined defaults or other calculations deem additional runs necessary for greater statistical accuracy of the result.

OpenBenchmarking.orgMinutesTime Required To Complete BenchmarkTest: BlowfishRun-Time48121620Min: 1 / Avg: 2.63 / Max: 16

Based on public OpenBenchmarking.org results, the selected test / test configuration has an average standard deviation of 0.6%.

OpenBenchmarking.orgPercent, Fewer Is BetterAverage Deviation Between RunsTest: BlowfishDeviation3691215Min: 0 / Avg: 0.63 / Max: 10

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

Yes, based on the automated analysis of the collected public benchmark data, this test / test settings does generally scale well with increasing CPU core counts. Data based on publicly available results for this test / test settings, separated by vendor, result divided by the reference CPU clock speed, grouped by matching physical CPU core count, and normalized against the smallest core count tested from each vendor for each CPU having a sufficient number of test samples and statistically significant data.

IntelAMDOpenBenchmarking.orgRelative Core Scaling To BaseJohn The Ripper CPU Core ScalingTest: Blowfish24681012161820243240485664128612182430

Notable Instruction Set Usage

Notable instruction set extensions supported by this test, based on an automatic analysis by the Phoronix Test Suite / OpenBenchmarking.org analytics engine.

Instruction Set
Support
Instructions Detected
SSE2 (SSE2)
Used by default on supported hardware.
 
PSHUFD MOVDQA CVTSI2SD MULSD ADDSD
SSE 4.2 (SSE4_2)
Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since at least 2010.
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).

 
POPCNT CRC32
Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since Sandy Bridge (2011).
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).

 
VZEROUPPER VINSERTF128 VEXTRACTF128 VPERM2F128 VBROADCASTSS VBROADCASTSD
Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since Haswell (2013).
Found on AMD processors since Excavator (2016).

 
VPBROADCASTB VPERM2I128 VPBROADCASTD VEXTRACTI128 VPBROADCASTQ VPERMQ VINSERTI128 VPBROADCASTW VPSRLVQ VPGATHERDQ VPGATHERDD VPGATHERQQ VPSLLVD VPERMD VPSLLVQ
Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX512)
Used by default on supported hardware.
 
(ZMM REGISTER USE)
The test / benchmark does honor compiler flag changes.
Last automated analysis: 18 March 2023

This test profile binary relies on the shared libraries libcrypto.so.3, libgmp.so.10, libm.so.6, libz.so.1, libcrypt.so.1, libbz2.so.1.0, libgomp.so.1, libc.so.6.

Tested CPU Architectures

This benchmark has been successfully tested on the below mentioned architectures. The CPU architectures listed is where successful OpenBenchmarking.org result uploads occurred, namely for helping to determine if a given test is compatible with various alternative CPU architectures.

CPU Architecture
Kernel Identifier
Verified On
Intel / AMD x86 64-bit
x86_64
(Many Processors)
SPARC64
sparc64
(Many Processors)
IBM Z
s390x
(Many Processors)
MIPS 64-bit
mips64
Loongson-3A R4
Intel / AMD x86 32-bit
i686
(Many Processors)
ARMv7 32-bit
armv7l
ARMv7 Cortex-A53 4-Core, ARMv7 Cortex-A7, ARMv7 Cortex-A72 4-Core, ARMv7 Cortex-A9 4-Core, ARMv7 rev 3 4-Core, ARMv7 rev 3 8-Core, ARMv7 rev 4 4-Core
ARMv6 32-bit
armv6l
ARMv7
DEC Alpha
alpha
Alpha
ARMv8 64-bit
aarch64
AArch64 rev 2, AArch64 rev 4, ARMv8, ARMv8 16-Core, ARMv8 32-Core, ARMv8 64-Core, ARMv8 8-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A53 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A55 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A57 2-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A57 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A57 8-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A72, ARMv8 Cortex-A72 16-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A72 2-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A72 6-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A72 8-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A73 6-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A77 6-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 2-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 32-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 4-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 64-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 8-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N2 16-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-V1, ARMv8 Neoverse-V1 4-Core, ARMv8 rev 1 4-Core, Amlogic ARMv8 Cortex-A53 4-Core, Ampere ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 128-Core, Ampere ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 256-Core, Ampere Altra ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 160-Core, Ampere Altra ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 64-Core, Ampere Altra ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 80-Core, Ampere eMAG ARMv8 32-Core, Cavium ThunderX, HUAWEI Kunpeng 920, Phytium FT-2000, Phytium S2500, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A53 4-Core, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A55 4-Core, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 6-Core

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