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tyrannus

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Apr 6, 2006
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Hey all, was wondering if any of you knew of any programs I can use to get a file unzipped.

I receive a password protected zip file with AES 256 bit encryption. I need an app that will unzip it for me. Any Ideas out there?
 
He needs a password cracker.
You could google it..there are plenty of hits for this particular 'zip file password crack' utility or look at extracting the hash from memory in a running unzip session and running a traditional password cracker against it. Good luck.
 
I don't need to "crack" the password. I have that. What I need is a way to extract the files with the password.
 
I have tried using Linux unzip and it still does not work. Just skips over the file. Guess I will just google till I find something.
 
Yeah, have checked man up and down and nothing I have tried seems to work. Maybe I am trying to do it wrong.
 
The problem is that WinZip seems tp encrypt the internal files, not the entire ZIP file. [Not the way I would have done it -- what if I don't want someone seeing my filenames, either?] And it's doing something weird with the headers in the file, so Linux's zip command can't get traction on it.

I think what you need is 7zip. I found a discussion of this problem in a Ubuntu forum and was able to modify the Ubuntu apt-get commands to yum commands on my Fedora 7 laptop.

I can AES-encrypt a zip-file using WinZip and decrypt it using 7zip on Linux.




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