On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Paul Saenz <[email protected]> wrote: > What I was looking to crack were books. I would imagine that cracking them > wouldn't be to hard because the probability of repeating letters in the > English language is very predictable. I havn't done any cracking before, but > I do know a little about encryption, and that would be quite interesting, > and it would help me learn a lot about encryption. Also, I guess cracking > would depend on how big the key is that the book is encrypted with.
Just adding 2c to this: If these files were made with RAR v3, then they're using AES-128, and with that comes less than 100 tries/sec on brute force mode. No other kind of attack possible. Only way to speed it up is to use GPU cracking, or find a distributed processing cracking software. See if you can find out which compression version was used before putting time into it. -- Dante _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list [email protected] http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
