Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: Well, the password-checking scheme uses a one-byte check against the zip header for consistency. So there is a (near) 1/256 chance of false positives, that is of bad passwords mistakenly detected as good; then the ZipFile class proceeds with unarchiving and that's where things fail (because the "decrypted" stream is really junk).
Therefore, I'd call it not a bug. If you want to crack a password, you need to trap this exception and interpret it as "bad password". ---------- nosy: +pitrou resolution: -> invalid status: open -> closed type: crash -> behavior versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 -Python 2.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10876> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
