Re: Brute Force (Mushy) Sunday, 14-Feb-99 23:07:04
Mushy, I tried a brute force program called PKCrack. It apparently needs a zipped plaintext file to compare against. Am I correct in assuming that a self extracting zip file with an EXE extension is NOT going to be a good target for this program? I took plaintext to mean just that. I tried the trick of using pkfix on the EXE to create the original zip and that worked. The filenames in the zip ended in an underscore (filename.hl_ for instance). I'm assuming that the file isn't a plain text file since I could double click it and I could see the file with the correct extension and a + at the end. By the way, I was playing with another zip/exe, not the project file. Naturally it seems I picked something more difficult than the project instead of easier. This type of brute force program wouldn't work on EB's file because I didn't have anything to compare with. I'm assuming it is for the programs you can DL on the net that have a demo and a purchase version. Thanx iCe |
Brute force attack was successful (Dr. Zen) (13-Feb-99 22:26:29) |