kimci86/bkcrack
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Crack legacy zip encryption with Biham and Kocher's known plaintext attack.
5 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2024-07-25 · latest 2024-10-18
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…I also ended up sponsoring the bkcrack project because the maintainer added a new option for me: https://github.com/kimci86/bkcrack/pull/126
comment by jgrahamc · 2024-10-18 · in Code that helped end Apartheid -
There's a program called bkcrack (< https://github.com/kimci86/bkcrack >) that can crack password-protected ZIPs. An interesting use case is documented in a blog post where someone (the Cloudflare CTO) uses it to recover some otherwise…
comment by cxr · 2024-09-14 · in Cracking an old ZIP file to help open source the ANC's "Vula" secret crypto code -
…bkcrack based on Tim's fuzzy recollection of what he thought he might have chosen for the password: https://github.com/kimci86/bkcrack/pull/56 and https://github.com/kimci86/bkcrack/pull/126 . However, I ran out of time to work on this…
comment by jgrahamc · 2024-09-08 · in Cracking an old ZIP file to help open source the ANC's "Vula" secret crypto code -
…want to crack "old" ZIP and you know a few characters in the archive there is nothing better than: https://github.com/kimci86/bkcrack
comment by Thaxll · 2024-09-07 · in Cracking an old ZIP file to help open source the ANC's "Vula" secret crypto code -
…need to decrypt old zip file this tool is amazing if you know couple of characters in the archive: https://github.com/kimci86/bkcrack
comment by Thaxll · 2024-07-25 · in Investigating corrupt Winamp skins