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Basic 12 John the Ripper
Im gong to just guess here but im sure he wants windows version. http://www.openwall.com/john/f/john171w.zip
Yep he is right. First time I tried jtr it took me over an hour to figure out how to work it.
if you can code you may just be better off making your own program and using the dictionary jtr comes with. It's good to make one of those once in your life to understand exactly what jtr better (from how the code is working), but its not required to understand it.
good luck