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| 811 | contains interesting C++ code that might be useful to someone, especially |
811 | contains interesting C++ code that might be useful to someone, especially |
| 812 | the C++ JSON implementation might be of interest. The project is mostly |
812 | the C++ JSON implementation might be of interest. The project is mostly |
| 813 | dead at the moment though... |
813 | dead at the moment though... |
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| 815 | gtm git-co(README) |
815 | gtm git-co(README) |
| 816 | GT.M Database |
816 | GT.M Database |
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| 818 | <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/fis-gtm/">GT.M</a> |
818 | <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/fis-gtm/">GT.M</a> |
| 819 | is a a vetted, industrial strength, transaction |
819 | is a a vetted, industrial strength, transaction |
| 820 | processing application platform consisting of a |
820 | processing application platform consisting of a |
| 821 | database engine optimized for high TP throughput and |
821 | database engine optimized for high TP throughput and |
| 822 | a compiler for the M (aka MUMPS) programming language. |
822 | a compiler for the M (aka MUMPS) programming language. |
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824 | fcrackzip cvs-co(fcrackzip.html) |
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825 | <b>fcrackzip</b> is a zip password cracker, similar to fzc, zipcrack and others. |
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827 | <h3>Why, the hell, another zip cracker?</h3> |
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829 | Naturally, programs are born out of an actual need. The situation with |
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830 | fcrackzip was no different... I'm not using zip very much, but recently |
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831 | I needed a password cracker. "Sure", I thought, "there are hundreds of |
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832 | them out there, I'll just gonna get one!". This wasn't so easy, in fact, |
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833 | none of the zipcrackers I found were able to find the passwords, either |
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834 | they didn't accept more than one zipfile, were awfully slow, or didn't do |
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835 | brute force attacks (which I needed). The worst thing was: no source!. |
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837 | <h3>Why is <i>no source</i> such a bad thing?</h3> |
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839 | [insert big chapter about the free software spirit here ;)], anyway |
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840 | people will never learn... You will find reasons why it's much better to |
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841 | provide source to your programs here, at opensource.org, and here, at the |
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842 | Free Software Foundation. Now, what are the features of fcrackzip? |
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844 | <ul><li> |
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845 | <p>FREE</p> |
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847 | <p>It doesn't cost anything, it will run on many architectures, and |
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848 | the source is freely available, so you can customise it to your |
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849 | needs. If you make improvements, don't hesitate to mail them to me, |
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850 | and I will include them in fcrackzip!</p> |
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852 | <p>One goal of fcrackzip was to provide a free but still fast |
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853 | zipcracker, so that other people can improve and contribute it |
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854 | further, in an open developement style.</p> |
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856 | <p>Other programs, like fzc, come not only without source, but the |
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857 | executable is even encrypted, so improving it or customizing it is |
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858 | difficult at best. (Maybe the programmers of other crackers don't |
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859 | want that people see how crappy their code actually is? Nobody |
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860 | knows for sure, but I see no other reason for this strange, but |
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861 | common, behaviour)</p> |
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863 | </li><li> |
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864 | <p>FAST</p> |
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866 | <p>On my old machine (a pentium-90), the portable C version is 12% |
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867 | slower than fzc, the fastest cracker I could find. Small parts of |
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868 | fcrackzip have been converted to x86 assembly, so it performs a bit |
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869 | faster (around 4%) than fzc now, on the same hardware (note: this |
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870 | is highly os/compiler dependent). Since the author of fzc claims |
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871 | that it is written fully in assembler, further improvements might |
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872 | well be possible. Incidently, on my new P-II machine, fcrackzip is |
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873 | almost twice as fast as fzc ;)</p> |
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875 | </li><li> |
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876 | <p>PORTABLE</p> |
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878 | <p>fcrackzip was written in ISO-C, and should run on most platforms, |
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879 | even 64 bit ones (maybe after some tweaking). I'll be glad to hear |
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880 | about portability problems so I can fix them.</p> |
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882 | </li><li> |
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883 | <p>FEATUREFUL</p> |
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885 | <p>fcrackzip will, at some later stage at least, support many more |
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886 | useful operation modes than other crackers. It already supports |
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887 | multiple zip files with multiple files. Remember that the code is |
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888 | only a few hours old!</p> |
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890 | <p>However, since version 0.2.0 fcrackzip also includes a mode to |
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891 | brute force cpmask'ed images, something no other program (that I |
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892 | know of) can do, so at least there is one feature other crackers |
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893 | don't have.</p> |
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894 | |
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895 | <p>And you can always implement your own modes.</p> |
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896 | |
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897 | </li></ul> |
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899 | <h3>Caveat, Imperator!</h3> |
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901 | <p>Naturally, there are also some drawbacks. At the moment, fcrackzip |
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902 | is a bit slower than necessary, and lacks some important (or nice) |
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903 | features, like automatic unzip-testing and others. On the other hand, |
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904 | fcrackzip-0.0.1 was hacked together in under ten hours, and you can |
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905 | always modify the source (and send me patches!!!) (I hope I've made it |
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906 | clear now ;)</p> |
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