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prh99 · 08-03-2006, 06:25 AM

The answer depends on two things. 1.) Did you use WinZips' AES Encryption Feature? 2.) how good was the password.

If you used stand Zip password protection, there are tools that can crack the password fairly quickly. If you used the AES encryption your only route is a brute force attack which means having software try a lots of potential passwords. If your password is long enough it become almost impossible to crack with the resources avaliable. If it was all words like you'd find in a dictionary or names then it can probably be cracked pretty quick.

Do you normally use fairly random passwords or do you use words etc?

I can give you links to software, it's just it might not be feasble depending on how you did it.

08-03-2006, 06:25 AM	#2 (permalink)
prh99 ... Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 1,572 Images: 3 Points: 1,012.99 Bank: 2,084,315.01 Total Points: 2,085,328.00 Donate	The answer depends on two things. 1.) Did you use WinZips' AES Encryption Feature? 2.) how good was the password. If you used stand Zip password protection, there are tools that can crack the password fairly quickly. If you used the AES encryption your only route is a brute force attack which means having software try a lots of potential passwords. If your password is long enough it become almost impossible to crack with the resources avaliable. If it was all words like you'd find in a dictionary or names then it can probably be cracked pretty quick. Do you normally use fairly random passwords or do you use words etc? I can give you links to software, it's just it might not be feasble depending on how you did it. Last edited by prh99 : 08-03-2006 at 06:31 AM.