You Can Now See the Code That Helped End Apartheid

Re:You Can Now See the Code That Helped End Apartheid by jefb on Friday October 18, 2024 @09:52AM (#41879480)

Did you end up discovering the original password to the zip file? (was it, as I'd hope, `TIMBOBIMBO` ?)

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Re:You Can Now See the Code That Helped End Apartheid by jgrahamc on Friday October 18, 2024 @09:54AM (#41879498)

No, I did not. I threw quite a lot of compute power at it using bkcrack (CPU) and hashcat (GPU) but never found out what it was. It was definitely not TIMBOBIMBO, sadly!

I also ended up sponsoring the bkcrack project because the maintainer added a new option for me: https://github.com/kimci86/bkcrack/pull/126

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Re:You Can Now See the Code That Helped End Apartheid by latchkey on Friday October 18, 2024 @10:57AM (#41880027)

How much was "quite a lot"?

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Re:You Can Now See the Code That Helped End Apartheid by 1970-01-01 on Friday October 18, 2024 @11:14AM (#41880186)

I did a pass with bkcrack. The password is over 13 char.

bkcrack.exe -k 98e0f009 48a0b11a c70f8499 -r 1..18 ?p bkcrack 1.7.0 - 2024-05-26 [11:07:33] Recovering password length 0-6... length 7... length 8... length 9... length 10... length 11... length 12... length 13...

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Re:You Can Now See the Code That Helped End Apartheid by jgrahamc on Friday October 18, 2024 @11:36AM (#41880384)

I can tell you it's over 14 ?p, and over 16 ?u?d, and over 17 ?u.

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Re:You Can Now See the Code That Helped End Apartheid by SG- on Friday October 18, 2024 @07:24PM (#41884378)

where's the original encrypted zip for this?

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Re:You Can Now See the Code That Helped End Apartheid by jgrahamc on Saturday October 19, 2024 @04:14AM (#41886428)

If you want to try to crack the password you don't need the ZIP file. Just the key (which you can see in the bkcrack command above).

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