zip-password-finder
zip-password-finder is a tool to find the password of protected zip files.
The initial design of this tool is described in details in the following blog article.
It supports two modes:
- dictionary: test passwords from a dictionary text file (one word per line)
- brute force: generate all passwords for a given charset and a password length range
The available charsets for generation are:
- basic: lowercase letters
- easy: basic + upper case letters
- medium: easy + digits
- hard: medium + punctuations and extras
Installation
cargo install zip-password-finder
Usage
```
./zip-password-finder -h
Find the password of protected ZIP files
Usage: zip-password-finder [OPTIONS] --inputFile
Options:
-i, --inputFile
path to zip input file
-w, --workers
number of workers
-p, --passwordDictionary
path to a password dictionary file
-c, --charset
charset to use to generate password [default: medium] [possible values: basic, easy, medium, hard]
--minPasswordLen
minimum password length [default: 1]
--maxPasswordLen
maximum password length [default: 10]
-h, --help
Print help information
-V, --version
Print version information
```
Performance
It is rather slow and seems to suffer from contention as the number of workers increases which makes it impractical for non-trivial passwords.