mfontana@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Mark A Fontana) (06/04/91)
Well, I'm stupid. I encrypted some personal files in a .ZIP before leaving on a trip. Two weeks later, I've forgotten the key (thought I would remember it- Murphy's Law). So, is there any little utility or trick to recover the archive, or should I keep guessing? I am using Pkzip 1.1 with the USA encryption. Mark
galt@baby.dsd.es.com (Greg Alt - Perp) (06/06/91)
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