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From: galt@baby.dsd.es.com (Greg Alt - Perp)
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Subject: Re: Any way to recover encrypted .zip?
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.222741.2779@dsd.es.com>
Date: 5 Jun 91 22:27:41 GMT
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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