[Goober5000]

That's geometrically, not exponentially.

[colecampbell666]

Multiplying a number by itself over and over again is exponentially.

[Goober5000]

No, see here...

If you have an alphabet of 26 letters, and a one-character password, the number of possibilities is 26.  If you have a two-character password, the number of possibilities is 26*26.  And so on...

26
26*26
26*26*26
26*26*26*26
26*26*26*26*26
...

In the formula described in Wikipedia, a is 1, and r is 26.

[colecampbell666]

Exactly. So doesn't the product multiply exponentially?

[Goober5000]

Oh, I see what you mean.  It's an exponential calculation, but a geometric sequence.

Yeah, the terms are kind of confusing.  Exponential series involve factorials.

[haloboy100]

Why are we having this argument?

Oh. 'cause The Count is supposed to be a mathematician

[Droid803]

It's cause the count counts.

[esarai]

I'm not certain it's been suggested, and I may sound like a complete fool for suggesting this, but why not try damaging the zip extractor's code in order to make it ignore the password protection? Or, if it's something that invokes an access-denial function (what the hell would you call that?) inside the computer, edit part of the computer so that passwords no longer activate the denial function? I'm getting inspired by something I saw my friend do--he bypassed admin privileges by screwing around with the files needed to define what was password/admin protected and what wasn't.

I sincerely hope that this suggestions is actually of some help, and not ineffably stupid.

[blowfish]

That doesn't work if the password is part of the encryption scheme

[griffon67]

we don't know if the archive have this kind of encryption do we ? the ones interested in opening this archive could try it, we've nothing to lose.

[colecampbell666]

It uses ZipCrypto encryption.

[CaptJosh]

ZipCrypto is supposed to be horribly flawed, but that doesn't seem to be helping getting into this thing.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Still no luck.  Maybe if we had one of these:  http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/09/fastest.computer.ap/index.html

Think they would let us use it for a few? 

[haloboy100]

Still no luck.  Maybe if we had one of these:  http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/09/fastest.computer.ap/index.html

I wonder if it can run Crisis

[colecampbell666]

http://www.crymod.com/thread.php?threadid=21682&sid=cc5c071661dfb54aad46f3837587d3b1

[DarthWang]

What we need is a CTC computer

Someone go and invent one please

[colecampbell666]

CTC?

[DarthWang]

Closed Timelike Curve. Like in Exultant. It computes the answer to the problem and then sends it back in time to when you started.

[tinfoil]

What we need is a CTC computer

Someone go and invent one please

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Dude i have one of those in my basement. i can haul it out for you if you want.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

http://www.crymod.com/thread.php?threadid=21682&sid=cc5c071661dfb54aad46f3837587d3b1

 

I thought the game designers should be able to run the game at its best!