fcrypt alternative?

[Kragen Sitaker]

"Guyon Moree" <gumuz at looze.net> writes:
> i am using fcrypt as a windows alternative for crypt. the only problem is
> that it is _so much slower_  than crypt. this is an issue as i am doing some
> sort of brute force stuff.
> 
> i'm wondering if anybody knows an alternative for fcrypt for windows.

I think john (the password cracker) runs on Windows, and its crypt is
much faster than the standard Unix crypt.  Probably wouldn't be hard
to extract and wrap john's crypt code.