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

(Fork from bkcrak.)

Not much, except that rbkcrack supports ZIP64 file (thanks to zip-rs crate).

In most cases, using bkcrack is a better choice. Because I haven't fully test rbkcrack, it's just a toy for practicing Rust.

Get the latest version from the git repository.

Build and install it with Cargo.

RUSTFLAGS='-C target_cpu=native' cargo install --git https://github.com/Aloxaf/rbkcrack

The attack uses at least 12 bytes of contiguous plaintext. The larger the known plaintext, the faster the attack.

Having a zip archive encrypted.zip with the entry cipher being the ciphertext and plain.zip with the entry plain as the known plaintext, rbkcrack can be run like this:

rbkcrack -C encrypted.zip -c cipher -P plain.zip -p plain

Or use -a option to let rbkcrack search entry automatically

rbkcrack -C encrypted.zip -P plain.zip -a

Having a file cipherfile with the ciphertext (starting with the 12 bytes corresponding to the encryption header) and plainfile with the known plaintext, rbkcrack can be run like this:

rbkcrack -c cipherfile -p plainfile

If the plaintext corresponds to a part other than the beginning of the ciphertext, you can specify an offset. It can be negative if the plaintext includes a part of the encryption header.

rbkcrack -c cipherfile -p plainfile -o offset

If the attack is successful, the deciphered text can be saved:

rbkcrack -c cipherfile -p plainfile -d decipheredfile

If the keys are known from a previous attack, it is possible to use rbkcrack to decipher data:

rbkcrack -c cipherfile -k 12345678 23456789 34567890 -d decipheredfile

The deciphered data might be compressed depending on whether compression was used or not when the zip file was created. If deflate compression was used, a Python 3 script provided in the tools folder may be used to decompress data.

tools/inflate.py < decipheredfile > decompressedfile

You can also use -u option to enable decompress

rbkcrack -C encrypted.zip -c cipher -P plain.zip -p plain -d final -u

[Suggested] If you want to decipher and decompress the whole file, you can use my custom p7zip:

7za e cipher.zip '-p[d4f34b9d_a6ba3461_dcd97451]'

A tutorial is provided in the example folder.

For more information, have a look at the documentation and read the source.

Do not hesitate to suggest improvements or submit pull requests on github.

BTW, if there is any zip file which bkcrack/pkcrack can crack while rbkcrack can't, please don't hesitate to report it.

This project is provided under the terms of the zlib/png license.