[LinuxUsers] rar extractor

[Michael Sokolov]

Chris Penn <cantormath at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bruteforce is plausible if you can refine the guesses enough.  Rar
> files made by OEMs with product specs etc.... tend to have very long
> non dictionary passwords making a conventional bruteforce approach
> unrealistic.

The encrypted zip from Mindspeed with SDSL transceiver firmware source
code had 'tsedud7' as the password that yielded the crack.  Non-dictionary,
but short enough to be brute-force-cracked in a matter of a few months.
Just one more character would have made it infeasible though.

MS