ngPost
Command Line (or minimalist GUI) usenet poster for binaries developped in C++/QT designed to be as fast as possible and offer all the main features to post data easily and safely. Releases for Linux, Windows and MacOS are available. (by mbruel)
bkcrack
Crack legacy zip encryption with Biham and Kocher's known plaintext attack. (by kimci86)
| ngPost | bkcrack | |
|---|---|---|
| 14 | 7 | |
| 204 | 1,851 | |
| 1.5% | 2.5% | |
| 3.1 | 7.2 | |
| 10 months ago | 4 months ago | |
| C++ | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | zlib License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
ngPost
Posts with mentions or reviews of ngPost.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-26.
- Had to compile ngPost myself on Linux since the old AppImages used old SSL library. Now my compiled version doesn’t recognize that I have par2 installed o my system. How can I make ngPost find that one? (It does detect my /use/bin/rar execufable)
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Noob trying uploading/posting to Usenet
ngpost is very beginner friendly, try using that instead
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current guides on how to start uploading to usenet? including creating NZB file
I tested some time ago and the one I liked the most is ngPost (https://github.com/mbruel/ngPost). It handels RARing, par2, password protection and obfuscation by itself and spits out a ready .nzb file. I needed a tool that can be used via command line, which worked fine, but i just saw that it also has a GUI if you need that
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Need help uploading a binary
Why are you trying to compile it from source ?
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Usenet Posting - Obfuscation, PAR files, RAR uploads and other things
I assume standard obfuscation only consists of renaming the files and then posting normally while article obfuscation is modifying the subject like in the nyuu issue above. If someone is familiar with ngpost, are there 3 levels of obfuscation available here - article, filename and archive name? I can’t imagine much use for filename obfuscation if the other two are used, is everything else unnecessary with article obfuscation? The ngpost author also seems to be against obfuscation in general
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How to share on USENET?
ngPost may be a good program to start with as it also has a GUI (graphical user interface): https://github.com/mbruel/ngPost
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Is the NgPost development still ongoing?
Last commit was on 2021-05-16. I personally wouldn't consider it abandoned at this stage. (besides, the Usenet upload scene is full of people using abandoned software, so I'm not even sure abandonment means much anyway)
- Upload all files inside folder
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If we dont use RAR, are passwords possible ?
Actually, both are incorrect, and I explain why that's a bad idea. The behaviour may have been true in the past, but isn't today (and as mentioned, writing temporary files sucks for performance).
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Uploading to usenet with no SSL. Safe?
The Nyuu wiki has a good comparison. If you're familiar with a command line Nyuu itself is a good choice, if not choose one of the programs with a GUI like ngPost or JBinUp (doesn't have a site anymore and isn't actively maintained).
bkcrack
Posts with mentions or reviews of bkcrack.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-09-07.
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Cracking an old ZIP file to help open source the ANC's "Vula" secret crypto code
The author kindly modified bkcrack based on Tim's fuzzy recollection of what he thought he might have chosen for the password: https://github.com/kimci86/bkcrack/pull/56 and https://github.com/kimci86/bkcrack/pull/126. However, I ran out of time to work on this part and it seemed more important to get the actual code running.
Also, in the course of things I discovered that Tim used PKZIP inside the BASIC code using a password that used non-printing characters.
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The secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
If you need to decrypt old zip file this tool is amazing if you know couple of characters in the archive: https://github.com/kimci86/bkcrack
- Anyone know a more efficient method to use for cracking this zip?
- bkcrack - Crack legacy zip encryption with Biham and Kocher's known plaintext attack.
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How does one crack a ZIP file password when you have access to one of the files from the ZIP file?
This is exactly what I was looking for! But instead of using pkcrack I used a better version called bkcrack: https://github.com/kimci86/bkcrack
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was not aware google scans all your private files for hate speech violations... Is this true and does this apply to all of google one storage?
Yes, the adversary will google "zip encryption cracker" and find implementations of the attack described in my first link. Eg: https://github.com/kimci86/bkcrack
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Unencrypting ZIP file
Actually yes! This is called a "known plaintext attack" and there is a known attack against legacy zip encryption. This project seems promising, although I haven't used it yet: https://github.com/kimci86/bkcrack
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ngPost and bkcrack you can also consider the following projects:
Nyuu - Flexible usenet binary posting tool
PrismLauncher-Cracked - This project is a Fork of Prism Launcher, which aims to 'unblock' the use of Offline Accounts, disabling the restriction of having a functional Online Account. No other modifications were applied to the project's source code.
nzbCheck - command line tool to check nzb files. First inside the nzb to see if each files has the expected number of Articles, then we check their availability on Usenet using the NNTP Stat command. Implemented in C++11/Qt5, nzbCheck is released for Linux, Windows, MacOS and RPI.
pkcrack - pkcrack with modern building tools
NewsUP - Fully feature high performance binary usenet uploader/poster
breakzip - BruteForce PKZip/ZipCrypto breaker