JtR requires OpenSSL and OpenSSL-devel being installed

Question

I'm on macos high sierra and trying to build john the ripper bleeding-jumbo. Being in the src folder and executing ./configure && make I get the following message

configure: error: JtR requires OpenSSL and OpenSSL-devel being installed. Install if not installed.
Try using --disable-pkg-config and possibly helping configure find oSSL by providing hints in CFLAGS and LDFLAGS
See `config.log' for more details

The command which openssl delivers

/usr/bin/openssl

openssl is installed but it seems it cannot find it, also the development package seems to be missing. How do I get around this? I couldn't find any working hints on how to install openssl-devel either. There is some information on how to install openssl via brew but this doesn't work.

Answer 1

So I found a solution to get around that problem.

From previous attempts brew link openssl --force told me

Warning: Refusing to link: openssl
Linking keg-only openssl means you may end up linking against the insecure,
deprecated system OpenSSL while using the headers from Homebrew's openssl.
Instead, pass the full include/library paths to your compiler e.g.:
  -I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include -L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib

So after following the advice in the mailing list I executed

export CFLAGS='-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include -L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib'

after that I tried to configure again

./configure --disable-pkg-config

That got me behind the ssl problems

Answer 2

For Centos users:

libssl and libssl-dev are for ubuntu users.

install OpenSSL and OpenSSL-devel libraries.

yum install -y openssl openssl-devel

then make a fresh clean install of JTR.

yum -y install wget gpgme
yum -y group install "Development Tools"
cd ~
wget http://www.openwall.com/john/k/john-1.9.0-jumbo-1.tar.xz
wget http://www.openwall.com/john/k/john-1.9.0-jumbo-1.tar.xz.sign
wget http://www.openwall.com/signatures/openwall-signatures.asc
gpg --import openwall-signatures.asc
gpg --verify john-1.9.0-jumbo-1.tar.xz.sign
tar xvfJ john-1.9.0-jumbo-1.tar.xz
cd john-1.9.0-jumbo-1/src
./configure && make

And finally test JTR:

cd ../run/
./john --test