Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr added the comment:
Well, the password-checking scheme uses a one-byte check against the zip header
for consistency.
So there is a (near) 1/256 chance of false positives, that is of bad passwords
mistakenly detected as good; then the ZipFile class proceeds with
Changes by Kira Erethon shinjieret...@gmail.com:
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title: Zipfile crashes when zip password is 610 - Zipfile crashes when zip
password is set to 610
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Eric Smith e...@trueblade.com added the comment:
What do you mean by is set to 610? Can you show us the code that caused this
error?
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Kira Erethon shinjieret...@gmail.com added the comment:
Ok, I tried recreating the bug and found out that I couldn't. Originally this
happened when I tried to find the password of a zip file through a dictionary
attack. The code I used is this:
import zipfile
zfile=raw_input(Please input
Changes by Kira Erethon shinjieret...@gmail.com:
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title: Zipfile crashes when zip password is set to 610 - Zipfile crashes when
zip password is set to 610/844
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Kira Erethon shinjieret...@gmail.com added the comment:
Update, tried this in another machine of mine, same exact code and this time it
crashes at 68
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title: Zipfile crashes when zip password is set to 610/844 - Zipfile crashes
when zip password is set to 610/844/numerous other
