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

Get the latest version from the git repository.

Build and install it with CMake.

The following options can be configured:

• CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX: Install path prefix, prepended onto install directories.
• CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE: Type of build (Debug or Release).
• BKCRACK_PARALLEL_MODE: Enable multithreaded attack with OpenMP. This requires a compiler that supports OpenMP.
• BKCRACK_BUILD_DOC: Enable documentation generation with doxygen.

An unofficial package bkcrack-git is available in AUR.

Install it with any AUR helpers you like.

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, bkcrack can be run like this:

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

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

bkcrack -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.

bkcrack -c cipherfile -p plainfile -o offset

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

bkcrack -c cipherfile -p plainfile -d decipheredfile

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

bkcrack -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

If bkcrack was built with parallel mode enabled, the number of threads used can be set through the environment variable OMP_NUM_THREADS.

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.

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