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emil@lamisun2.epfl.ch (Emil Laurentiu) writes:

>      seize.  I talked to Eric Thompson, the author, and he said his
>      program only takes a split second to crack them, but he put in some
>      delay loops to slow it down so it doesn't look so easy to the
>      customer.  He also told me that the password encryption feature of
>      PKZIP files can be easily broken, and that his law enforcement
>      customers already have that service regularly provided to them from
>      another vendor.


> In these conditions I think the contest launched by PKWARE is of no interest. 

I had the claim that you are quoting verified. The company mentioned
in the PGP documentation CANNOT crack ALL PKZIP archives. You are
still safe, if you are using a long (>8 chars) and weird
(upper case + lower case + digits + punctuation characters) password.

Regards,
Vesselin
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