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- From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: PKZIP contest
- Message-ID: <bontchev.721320142@fbihh>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 14:42:22 GMT
- References: <1992Nov9.043032@lamisun2.epfl.ch>
- Sender: news@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Mr. News)
- Reply-To: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de
- Organization: Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
- Lines: 25
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- emil@lamisun2.epfl.ch (Emil Laurentiu) writes:
-
- > seize. I talked to Eric Thompson, the author, and he said his
- > program only takes a split second to crack them, but he put in some
- > delay loops to slow it down so it doesn't look so easy to the
- > customer. He also told me that the password encryption feature of
- > PKZIP files can be easily broken, and that his law enforcement
- > customers already have that service regularly provided to them from
- > another vendor.
-
-
- > In these conditions I think the contest launched by PKWARE is of no interest.
-
- I had the claim that you are quoting verified. The company mentioned
- in the PGP documentation CANNOT crack ALL PKZIP archives. You are
- still safe, if you are using a long (>8 chars) and weird
- (upper case + lower case + digits + punctuation characters) password.
-
- Regards,
- Vesselin
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