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6161234432565677 possibilities for up to 8 printable-characters (roughly 2^52) 217180147133 poss. for up to 8 lowercase letters (roughly 2^38) 54507958502609 poss. for up to 8 lower/upper letters (roughly 2^46) 221919451578029 poss. for up to 8 alphanumeric chars. (roughly 2^48) Apparently, the password can be up to 80 printable characters in length... 715934338421370680344382998236434541670979942120825502830105586745112050\ 939906381266091474511676185877408805164512571770773165479768270778933665\ 90119714237357 possibilities worst-case (roughly 2^524) According to one of the READMEs that comes with a public domain implementation of the PKZIP crypto algorithm, there is a known-plaintext attack against it described at http://www.cryptography.com/. If it's 8 or less lower-case letters, it would seem that it's probably crackable in a reasonable amount of time on a high-end desktop PC or workstation. Anything more would probably require a distributed attack. -- Brian Buchanan brian@smarter.than.nu Never believe that you know the whole story.