[plug] OT: password recovery

[Mike Holland]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Jon  Miller wrote:

> anyone can help. Client has a winzip file and forgot the password to the
> zip file.  Does anyone know of a utility that can recover the password.

According to  
http://www.der-keiler.de/Newsgroups/comp.security.misc/2002-06/0168.html
it is crackable. And there is freeware to do it.

http://www.all-nettools.com/privacy/crypto.htm#zip
http://www.elcomsoft.com/azpr.html

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