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Re: password protection of a file



> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > Or, less securely, but more simply:
> >   zip -e -0 infil outfile
>
> Less securely is probably the understatement of the year. fcrackzip has
> never taken more than 1 sec on my desktop (Athlon XP 2800+) to find a
> password that works to unencrypt a zip file.

I guess you use very bad passwords, with any decent password it would take you 
much more than a few seconds to find it.



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