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Article #10834Re: Any way to recover encrypted .zip?
From: Greg Alt - Perp
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1991 22:27
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1991 22:27
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In article <1991Jun5.145446.4414@odi.com>, ed@odi.com (Ed Schwalenberg) writes:
> In article <7765@rex.cs.tulane.edu> barnett@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Karey Barnett) writes:
> Assuming only lower-cased letters in the password, then there
> are 26 to exponent of 10 possible passwords...
>
> Great. That's only 141167095653376 passwords. Testing one every millisecond
> will only take 4,473 years.
>
> Thus, you have my suggestion, which as I said before, is intense.
>
> Very.
Or, if you are sure that the password is a an actual word, you could download
a dictionary file, and try all the words until it works... If you use the
encription method, you might be able to write a C program to attempt this...
(this would only require ~30,000 attempts)
Greg
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