Zip cracking program for XP or Linux

[Kooldino]

Ok, so I have a few old zip files on my PC that I password protected years ago, and can't figure out what the passwords are.

I have some "advanced zip password recovery" program that I'm currently brute-forcing. Luckily it lets you tailor some variables such that I customized it so that it would only test types of passwords in the structure that I typically use, which helps.

However, it's going to take an estimated 3 days or so. I also noticed that it's only using 50% of my dual-core CPU...in other words, it's single threaded.

So, I wanted to know if anyone knows a good ZIP password recovery program that can utilize a multi core CPU. It can run on linux or XP.

[SteveC]

Well if it's single threaded and you have more than one zip file, do two at once

[BarryS]

Not strictly relevant, but related

[Kooldino]

Well if it's single threaded and you have more than one zip file, do two at once

Well, I ran two instances on teh same file with different ranges of passwords to define. I was hoping there'd be a better product out there though.

[Kooldino]

Not strictly relevant, but related

The link should be:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7118997.stm

Butyes, I saw the video card cracking setup before...very impressive.

Where can I download an app that runs on that?

[Gurm]

There's an app out there somewhere that uses the cleartext zip vulnerability if you know ANY of the text inside the file... do you?

[Kooldino]

There's an app out there somewhere that uses the cleartext zip vulnerability if you know ANY of the text inside the file... do you?

They are video files.