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Re: Winzip Encryption
From: Jon Uriona <jurionamendi () yahoo es>
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:42:26 +0200
Hi, What kind of cracking attack did you apply?? A dictionary attack? If your passwords are composed of dictionary words (or a guessable combination of them), and your cracking algorithm is known (doesn't matter which, DES or even AES256), then you are lost. Just a combination of well established passwords (you know the rules of choosing hard passwords, don't you?) plus an updated algorithm are a robust election. Cheers, JU acwang0048 () gmail com escribió:
Hi, People told me that the latest version of winzip has AES encryption to protect files and should be much safer than its eariler version like v8. However, when I tested it with password cracker products like “archpr”, I can easily get the password. So why it claims using AES in the latest version when it is that easy to find a way to retrteive documents inside winzip! Well, anyone has any good suggestions for a safe way to send out compressed documents? Many Thanks, Wang
Current thread:
- Winzip Encryption acwang0048 (Sep 26)
- Re: Winzip Encryption Brenno J.S.A.A.F. de Winter, WGASA (Sep 26)
- Re: Winzip Encryption Marc-André Laverdière (Sep 26)
- Re: Winzip Encryption Jon Uriona (Sep 29)
- Re: Winzip Encryption Brenno J.S.A.A.F. de Winter, WGASA (Sep 26)