Hi Henk!
(Tue Apr 08 1997) Henk Walgemoed wrote to All...
 HW> I would like to know how you can remove passwords (that I already have)
 HW> from ZIP files. In stead of unzipping them first with the password and
 HW> then compressing them again without a password is taking up to much of 
y
 HW> time..
 HW> So does anyone know a shotcut to do this????/?
No one does it in a way told by you. PKWARE officially describes PKZIP's 
compression methods, so it isn't a hard job for anyone to crack it. I know a 
plenty of Russian crackers for PKZIP passwords which try 50000 words each 
second on a 486DX2, thus working very fast. The same is true for ARJ and RAR 
archivers.
If the user knows the first byte(s) of file and/or the first letter(s) of 
archive password, the process may become even faster, taking only 17 minutes 
to crack a 4KB file zipped with 8-letter password on a 80286-16...
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