Hacking A Zip File
One of the easiest ways to encrypt a file is to compress it as a encrypted zip file. Zip files can be hacked however. But the most important thing is to have a strong password. With a strong password it could take years to crack an encryption. That being said let me show you how someone can access your encrypted zip file.
1) First let me show you how to create an enrcrpeted zip file. You are gonna run the command
zip —password yourpassword filename.zip filename
2) So in order to crack the password of the zip file you are gonna use a program called fcrackzip. You have two options when using this program. You can try to use a brute force attack or use a dictionary attack.
To brute force attack use the commands
fcrackzip -b -v -u filename.zip
For dictionary attack drag your txt file with the passwords dictionary that you are using to the same directory then use the command
fcrackzip -D -p dictionaryfilename -u filename.zip
3) To gain access to the file you are gonna uncompress it and then enter the password with this command
unzip filename.zip