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- From: nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted
- Subject: Re: ARJ password cracker.
- Message-ID: <3327@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 16:47:58 GMT
- References: <92318.184327MEB117@psuvm.psu.edu> <1992Nov14.065336.17744@nwnexus.WA.COM>
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- In <1992Nov14.065336.17744@nwnexus.WA.COM> ralphs@halcyon.com (Ralph Sims) writes:
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- >Matthew E. Bernold <MEB117@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
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- >>only copy he has left is in the archive, and he can't get to them. I know
- >>I've read about password crackers for WordPerfect documents, and .ZIP files.
- >>Is there such a beast for .ARJ files?
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- >Maybe I'm missing something, but what good is a password that anyone can
- >crack?
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- Not very good. Unfortunately most common ones are crackable (WP, PKZIP, ARJ).
- I know of WP and PKZIP crack programs but unfortunately not of ARJ crack
- programs. ARJ encryption is very weak but nooane seems to have made a tool for it.
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- "The IBM PC is still waiting for a version of the CP/M OS.", G.M. Vose, 1982.
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