unzip password protected file

Niraj Choubey picture Niraj Choubey · Jul 6, 2010 · Viewed 11k times · Source

how to unzip a password protected file using dotnetzip or sharpziplib (if the password is not known).

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sarnold picture sarnold · Jul 6, 2010

GPL-3 zip password-cracking code: http://oldhome.schmorp.de/marc/fcrackzip.html

Using the Ubuntu-supplied packages, it took my machine 19 seconds to crack the password of the supplied sample .zip file (as described in the README).