Brian W. Buchanan wrote:
THIS PACKAGE IS DISTRIBUTED TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AND PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS ONLY!! THE ARCHIVE FILE IS [PKZip] ENCRYPTED, AND YOU WILL NEED A PASSWORD TO EXTRACT THE ARCHIVE. IF YOU ARE NOT WORKING IN LAW ENFORCEMENT,
According to one of the READMEs that comes with a public domain implementation of the PKZIP crypto algorithm, there is a
A few years ago the plaintext attack was implmented. One of the first tests was on an encrypted file released in Europe that was supposed to contain the source code and emulation of the Sky 0A smartcard. It cracked it in about 3 hours I seem to recall. The implementation worked exceedingly well and ran on Linux. The page says that the w95 version is also available. http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~conrad/krypto/pkcrack.html Regards...jmcc -- ******************************************** John McCormac * Hack Watch News jmcc@hackwatch.com * 22 Viewmount, Voice: +353-51-873640 * Waterford, BBS&Fax: +353-51-850143 * Ireland http://www.hackwatch.com/~kooltek ******************************************** -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6 mQCNAzAYPNsAAAEEAPGTHaNyitUTNAwF8BU6mF5PcbLQXdeuHf3xT6UOL+/Od+z+ ZOCAx8Ka9LJBjuQYw8hlqvTV5kceLlrP2HPqmk7YPOw1fQWlpTJof+ZMCxEVd1Qz TRet2vS/kiRQRYvKOaxoJhqIzUr1g3ovBnIdpKeo4KKULz9XKuxCgZsuLKkVAAUX tCJKb2huIE1jQ29ybWFjIDxqbWNjQGhhY2t3YXRjaC5jb20+tBJqbWNjQGhhY2t3 YXRjaC5jb20= =sTfy -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----