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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:55:41 +0200
From: Volker Stolz <vs@FreeBSD.org>
To: Renato Botelho <garga@FreeBSD.org>
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Am 28. Jul 2005 um 12:32 CEST schrieb Renato Botelho:
>   This package implements an algorithm for breaking the PkZip cipher [...]
>    - You need to know only a part of the plaintext (at least 13 bytes). Many files
>      have commonly known headers, like DOS .EXE-files. Knowing a reasonably long
>      header you can recover the password and decrypt the entire file.

Is someone working on a virus-scanner for encrypted zip-files using this approach yet? :)

Volker
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