At 16:42 15/01/02 +1100, root wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:12:19PM +1100, Zhasper wrote:
>
> > /me racks brains... From memory, the PKZIP program used a fairly simple
> > LFSR-based encrpyption, which is fairly easy to crack, but I don't know
> > details off hand..
>
>That might have been the case for the version one revisions, but when they
>got to version two the encryption method changed. To get into them now
>requires brute force.

Well, I *do* have this *DOZE based password cracker that does a reasonable 
job...:-)

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