Re: Winzip Encryption

[Jon Uriona <jurionamendi () yahoo es>]

Hi,

What kind of cracking attack did you apply?? A dictionary attack?

If your passwords are composed of dictionary words (or a guessable
combination of them), and your cracking algorithm is known (doesn't
matter which, DES or even AES256), then you are lost.

Just a combination of well established passwords (you know the rules of
choosing hard passwords, don't you?) plus an updated algorithm are a
robust election.

Cheers,

JU


acwang0048 () gmail com escribió:
> Hi,
>
> People told me that the latest version of winzip has AES encryption to protect files and should be much safer than 
> its eariler version like v8.
>
> However, when I tested it with password cracker products like “archpr”, I can easily get the password. So why it 
> claims using AES in the latest version when it is that easy to find a way to retrteive documents inside winzip!
>
> Well, anyone has any good suggestions for a safe way to send out compressed documents?
>
> Many Thanks,
> Wang