Build Your Own Zip File Cracker

This is a solution to the problem posed at https://codingchallenges.fyi/challenges/challenge-zip-cracker

Features

This cracker will find the first password that decrypts an entry within a given zip file. The passwords can either be provided by text file (separated by single newline character), or can be brute-forced using a user-supplied alphabet. Brute-forcing will utilise multiple threads.

Operation

Options

1. -z zip_file
2. -d dict_file; or
3. -b max_len:regex

Examples

zip-cracker -z test.zip -d crackstation-human-only.txt
zip-cracker -z test.zip -b 8:[a-z]
zip-cracker -z test.zip -b 8:[[:alnum:]]