Guides for removing and recovering ZIP file passwords
If you have a password-protected ZIP file and you know the password, you can strip that password out and save a clean, unprotected copy in a few seconds - without installing anything and without...
"I have a ZIP file, I need what is inside, and I do not know the password." It is one of the most searched questions about ZIP archives - and most of the pages answering it oversell wildly. Here...
Not all password-protected ZIP files are equally protected. The word "ZIP" hides two completely different encryption schemes: the old ZipCrypto, which is weak, and the modern WinZip AES, which is...
Search for a way to remove a ZIP password and you will find dozens of "online" tools that promise to do it for you. The safety question people rarely ask is the one that matters most: where does...
Forgetting the password on a ZIP file is more common than you would think, especially for archives you protected months ago and rarely open. Before you assume the contents are gone for good, it is...
Double-click a password-protected ZIP on a Mac and you will often hit a wall: Archive Utility, the built-in unzip tool, does not prompt for a password at all for many protected archives, and...
You have received a password-protected ZIP on your Android phone, maybe as an email attachment or a download, and tapping it does nothing useful: no password prompt, just a vague error or a folder...
"Password-protected ZIP" sounds like one simple thing, but it actually covers two genuinely different encryption schemes with very different security properties: legacy ZipCrypto and modern WinZip...
"How long would it take to crack my ZIP password?" has a real, measurable answer, and it depends almost entirely on two things: which encryption scheme protects the archive, and how strong the...