Re: Cracking zip archive passwords

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Date: 10/18/02 

Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 05:02:24 -0700

Bob wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of a free (at least as in beer), efficient, bruteforce
> password cracker for zip archives that runs under freebsd (or is just
> written in standard C and will compile on any unix)? I've got one
> (zipcracker) working around the clock on one of the CPU's of a dual
> 433MHz celeron box, and it's only getting about 70,000 tries a second,
> which sounds pretty low to me. Anyone got a quicker program than this?
>
> Cheers

What was your security question again? 

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