How long does it take to crack an eight character zip compressed password ?
Passwords consist of uppercase, lowercase, and numbers。 How long does it take to crack with current computer computing power? How to calculate it?
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How long does it take to crack an eight character zip compressed password ?
Passwords consist of uppercase, lowercase, and numbers。 How long does it take to crack with current computer computing power? How to calculate it?
Thank you for your answer
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As Mark Adler noted, more info is needed for absolute answers. But with a couple of modest assumptions, a relative answer is possible.
In practical terms, a random 8-character password for a PKZIP compressed file can be cracked in six days on prosumer-grade hardware (which means that it's too short!). And the information below should enable you to calculate it for your case.
The worst-case keyspace you'd need to exhaust (if no other information is known) is 95^8, or about 6.634 × 10^15.
hashcat currently supports the following zip-related hash types:
... which benchmark at the following hashrates on two RTX 4090s:
Once you determine your file type and hardware, you now have the elements necessary to calculate the worst-case exhaustion time (adjusting your assumptions to match your case).
For example, on this hardware, the 17210 (PKZIP compressed) format can be attacked at 12465.8 MH/s (millions of hashes per second). For this password, you have to exhaust a maximum of 95^8 possibilities. Dividing by 60 to get minutes, 60 to get hours, and 24 to get days ... yields six days:
(95^8) / 12465000000 / 60 / 60 / 24 = ~6.16 days