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NAME

       fcrackzip - a Free/Fast Zip Password Cracker

SYNOPSIS

       fcrackzip   [-bDBchVvplum2]   [--brute-force]   [--dictionary]   [--benchmark]  [--charset
       characterset] [--help] [--validate] [--verbose]  [--init-password  string/path]  [--length
       min-max] [--use-unzip] [--method name] [--modulo r/m] file...

DESCRIPTION

       fcrackzip searches each zipfile given for encrypted files and tries to guess the password.
       All files must be encrypted with the same  password,  the  more  files  you  provide,  the
       better.

   OPTIONS
       -h, --help
              Prints the version number and (hopefully) some helpful insights.

       -v, --verbose
              Each -v makes the program more verbose.

       -b, --brute-force
              Select  brute  force  mode. This tries all possible combinations of the letters you
              specify.

       -D, --dictionary
              Select dictionary mode. In this mode, fcrackzip will read passwords  from  a  file,
              which  must contain one password per line and should be alphabetically sorted (e.g.
              using sort(1)).

       -c, --charset characterset-specification
              Select the characters to use in brute-force cracking. Must be one of

                a   include all lowercase characters [a-z]
                A   include all uppercase characters [A-Z]
                1   include the digits [0-9]
                !   include [!:$%&/()=?{[]}+*~#]
                :   the following characters upto the end of the spe-
                    cification string are included in the character set.
                    This way you can include any character except binary
                    null (at least under unix).

              For example, a1:$% selects lowercase characters, digits and the dollar and  percent
              signs.

       -p, --init-password string
              Set  initial  (starting)  password  for brute-force searching to string, or use the
              file with the name string to supply passwords for dictionary searching.

       -l, --length min[-max]
              Use an initial password of length min, and check all passwords  upto  passwords  of
              length max (including). You can omit the max parameter.

       -u, --use-unzip
              Try  to  decompress the first file by calling unzip with the guessed password. This
              weeds out false positives when not enough files have been given.

       -m, --method name
              Use method number "name" instead of the default cracking method. The switch  --help
              will  print  a  list of available methods. Use --benchmark to see which method does
              perform best on your machine. The name can also be the number of the method to use.

       -2, --modulo r/m
              Calculate only r/m of the password. Not yet supported.

       -B, --benchmark
              Make a small benchmark, the output is nearly meaningless.

       -V, --validate
              Make some basic checks wether the cracker works.

ZIP PASSWORD BASICS

       Have you ever mis-typed a password for unzip? Unzip reacted pretty  fast  with  ´incorrect
       password´,  without  decrypting the whole file. While the encryption algorithm used by zip
       is  relatively  secure,  PK  made  cracking  easy  by  providing  hooks  for   very   fast
       password-checking,  directly  in  the  zip  file.  Understanding  these  is crucial to zip
       password cracking:

       For each password that is tried, the  first  twelve  bytes  of  the  file  are  decrypted.
       Depending  on  the version of zip used to encrypt the file (more on that later), the first
       ten or eleven bytes are random, followed by one or  two  bytes  whose  values  are  stored
       elsewhere  in  the zip file, i.e. are known beforehand. If these last bytes don't have the
       correct (known) value, the password is definitely wrong. If the  bytes  are  correct,  the
       password  might  be  correct,  but  the  only  method to find out is to unzip the file and
       compare the uncompressed length and crc´s.

       Earlier versions of pkzip (1.xx) (and, incidentally, many zip clones for  other  operating
       systems!)  stored  two known bytes. Thus the error rate was roughly 1/2^16 = 0.01%. PKWARE
       ´improved´ (interesting what industry calls improved) the security of their format by only
       including  one  byte,  so  the  possibility  of  false  passwords  is  now raised to 0.4%.
       Unfortunately, there is no real way to distinguish one byte from two byte formats,  so  we
       have to be conservative.

BRUTE FORCE MODE

       By  default, brute force starts at the given starting password, and successively tries all
       combinations until they are exhausted, printing all passwords that  it  detects,  together
       with a rough correctness indicator.

       The  starting  password  given by the -p switch determines the length.  fcrackzip will not
       currently increase the password length automatically, unless the -l switch is used.

DICTIONARY MODE

       This mode is similar to brute force mode, but instead  of  generating  passwords  using  a
       given set of characters and a length, the passwords will be read from a file that you have
       to specify using the -p switch.

CP MASK

       A CP mask is a method to obscure images or  parts  of  images  using  a  password.   These
       obscured  images can be restored even when saved as JPEG files. In most of these files the
       password is actually hidden and can be decoded easily (using one  of  the  many  available
       viewer  and masking programs, e.g. xv). If you convert the image the password, however, is
       lost. The cpmask crack method can be used to brute-force these images. Instead  of  a  zip
       file  you supply the obscured part (and nothing else) of the image in the PPM-Image Format
       (xv and other viewers can easily do this).

       The cpmask method can only cope with password composed of uppercase letters, so be sure to
       supply  the  --charset  A  or  equivalent  option, together with a suitable initialization
       password.

EXAMPLES

       fcrackzip -c a -p aaaaaa sample.zip
              checks the encrypted files in sample.zip for all lowercase  6  character  passwords
              (aaaaaa ... abaaba ... ghfgrg ... zzzzzz).

       fcrackzip --method cpmask --charset A --init AAAA test.ppm
              checks the obscured image test.ppm for all four character passwords.

       fcrackzip -D -p passwords.txt sample.zip
              check for every password listed in the file passwords.txt.

PERFORMANCE

       fzc,  which  seems  to  be  widely  used as a fast password cracker, claims to make 204570
       checks per second on my machine (measured under plain dos w/o memory manager).

       fcrackzip, being written in C and not in assembler, naturally is  slower.  Measured  on  a
       slightly  loaded  unix (same machine), it´s 12 percent slower (the compiler used was pgcc,
       from http://www.gcc.ml.org/).

       To remedy this a bit, I converted small parts of the encryption core to x86 assembler  (it
       will  still  compile on non x86 machines), and now it´s about 4-12 percent faster than fzc
       (again, the fcrackzip performance was measured under  a  multitasking  os,  so  there  are
       inevitably  some  meaurement errors), so there shouldn't be a tempting reason to switch to
       other programs.

       Further improvements are definitely possible: fzc took 4 years to get  into  shape,  while
       fcrackzip  was  hacked  together in under 10 hours. And not to forget you have the source,
       while other programs (like fzc), even come as an encrypted .exe file (maybe because  their
       programmers  are  afraid  of other people could having a look at their lack of programming
       skills?  nobody knows...)

RATIONALE

       The reason I wrote fcrackzip was NOT to have the fastest zip  cracker  available,  but  to
       provide  a  portable,  free  (thus extensible), but still fast zip password cracker. I was
       really pissed of with that dumb, nonextendable zipcrackers that were either slow, were too
       limited,  or  wouldn't run in the background (say, under unix). (And you can't run them on
       your superfast 600Mhz Alpha).

BUGS

       No automatic unzip checking.

       Stop/resume facility is missing.

       Should be able to distinguish between files with 16 bit stored  CRC´s  and  8  bit  stored
       CRC´s.

       The benchmark does not work on all systems.

       It's still early alpha.

       Method "cpmask" only accepts ppms.

       Could be faster.

AUTHOR

       fcrackzip  was  written  by  Marc  Lehmann  <pcg@goof.com>.  The main fcrackzip page is at
       http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/fcrackzip.html)

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