Why does a password-protected zip file reveal a list of the files within lol?
If I'm understanding this right, we'd have been hosed if the files had been TARd first?
If I'm understanding this right, we'd have been hosed if the files had been TARd first?
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This is addressed in the article. In fact the zip contained a zip and this helped!
> He realized the zip file contained another zip file, and that since all he needed was the right original text for a specific part of the scrambled text, his best chance was using the first file name mentioned in the zip within the zip.