Hello Andrew.
Vrijdag april 11 1997 01:28, Andrew Belov wrote to Henk Walgemoed:
 HW>> So does anyone know a shotcut to do this????/?
 AB> No one does it in a way told by you. PKWARE officially describes
 AB> PKZIP's compression methods, so it isn't a hard job for anyone to
 AB> crack it. I know a plenty of Russian crackers for PKZIP passwords
 AB> which try 50000 words each second on a 486DX2, thus working very fast.
 AB> The same is true for ARJ and RAR archivers.
 AB> If the user knows the first byte(s) of file and/or the first letter(s)
 AB> of archive password, the process may become even faster, taking only
 AB> 17 minutes to crack a 4KB file zipped with 8-letter password on a
 AB> 80286-16...
That's nice and all, but I already know the passwords, I only asked if there 
was a way to remove the password from the ZIP file without unpacking it with 
the password and than packing it again without a password. It to much work 
every time... You see?
 AB>                                                      Bye-Bye.
Bye
Henk
... A Mogwai is simply a highly evolved Tribble.
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