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Re:Found a 16y old password protected Zip file with my mIRC ... by 4e1a on Friday April 15, 2016 @02:17PM (#11506467)
I would research as to what cipher was used in zip files back then and see if it is currently defeatable, like RC4 or AES with bad padding, and then work through the cryptopals.com problems and see if any of this applies to the zip file.
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Re:Found a 16y old password protected Zip file with my mIRC ... by lampzzy on Friday April 15, 2016 @05:50PM (#11507889)
I'm not a cryptography guy myself but thanks for the tip - still on time to learn a few things!
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