Cracking an old ZIP file to help open source the ANC's "Vula" secret crypto code

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  1. RANDOM

    Code for program to create random data disks for the TAPCOD and TECOD encryption programs (by Vulacode)

    I've got a look at his number generator for the secure one-time pad, and Melissa McNeil would proud. Almost pcg. It uses the powerbasic system Rand LCG to switch between 3 new rand1-3 functions, two of them with different LCG's.

    https://github.com/Vulacode/RANDOM/blob/d6a1a1d694b22e6a115b...

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  3. bkcrack

    Crack legacy zip encryption with Biham and Kocher's known plaintext attack.

    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.

  4. ZipMcKracken

    Brute Force Attack on ZipCrypt

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