From: aries-AT-pyromedia.org
Subject: AUT: cracked empire
Date: Wed,  1 Aug 2001 04:53:30 -0400 (EDT)


hi,
the url for a cracked version of empire has been posted on the nettime mailing list by sebastian -see the message below. you can now copy/paste or print from this pdf file. they are also working on the ascii text version of the file at http://textz.gnutenberg.net 
the url for the cracked pdf is:
http://excess4all.com/empire/empire_cracked.pdf      
thanks to sebastian.
best,
aras

From: sebastian-AT-textz.com 
Subject: <nettime> empire (cracked) 
To: nettime-l-AT-bbs.thing.net 
Date: Tue 31/07/01 13:45 
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geert-AT-xs4all.nl wrote: 
> could you perhaps post something to nettime if it's possible 
> to crack a pdf file? i have no idea. did people try to do 
> this? 

loget-AT-zvolve.com wrote: 
> This is the encryption scheme for the breaking of which the 
> FBI recently arrested a russian coder who came to las vegas to 
> expose his findings. Last time i checked their software was 
> only for windows ... who will free Empire? 

in fact it *is* possible to crack a pdf. the recently arrested 
dmitry sklyarov (and andy malyshev, to give full credits) have 
written an "advanced pdf password recovery" (apdfpr) tool 
(released by the moscow-based elcomsoft.com) that decrypts 
protected pdfs. the free trial version will only decrypt a small 
part of any document, so you can either register for $30 (which 
seems appropriate to me) or try to crack apdfpr itself (google 
is a good point to start, but it may take an hour or two...) 

cracked empire pdf: 
http://excess4all.com/empire 

raw ascii version: 
http://textz.gnutenberg.net 

clean ascii version to come... 

cheers, 
sebastian 

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