Definatly brute force the passwords, It's very doubtable youd crack a true RSA algothim with a home PC,

I mean if the passwords are strong and your at a uni surely u could use the netwrok to do a distributed brute force attack on the files.

i think i noticed was that when you try and extract the files, its passworded then as well, What about using softIce then and seeing if you can crack it that way, I think its softIce ive forgotten to be honest.

also, i havent played with Zip files much but what about using debug, and then you might be able to pull out bits of the datafiles, place them in a Zip and then decompress them that way, Just an idea (likely to fail)

daft as it my sound but the files are all named the same, are they all the same? they look like it cos there all the same size, but its impossible to tell at the moment

Im sure theres programs to crack ZIP passwords, but you could write one simple enough, if you used softIce and found the location on the text entry and then created a program to hammer passwords at that location

probably be easier to just defeat the password with cracking/reverse engineering in that case

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