Re: zip password protection

From: Joe Peschel (jpeschel@no.spam.org)
Date: 03/28/03 

From: Joe Peschel <jpeschel@no.spam.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 23:07:59 -0000

matthew@flackwell.com (matt) wrote in
news:6e65382a.0303271448.7fb7a79@posting.google.com:

> I created a zip file about 3 years ago and passworded it. I now cant
> figure out the password. I have tried everything i can think of, all
> my old passwords etc.. but with no luck!
>
> I have tried dictionary and brute force attacks but the password is
> over 7 characters long. All the programs i have tried state that to
> check 8+ passwords will take several thousand years and im a bit too
> impatient for that!!! :o)
>
> Is there ANY other way of bypassing it? I'm beginning to believe that
> its now impossible to crack it.

Try Peter Conrad's PkCrack, and send the guy a postcard.

http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~conrad/krypto/pkcrack.html

I wonder why Conrad doesn't link to my site from his list of "Other links
to cracking software."

J 

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