> On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 05:19:26PM -0400, Peter Sjoberg wrote: > > in short: Does anyone know about a crack program for a vi -x encrypted > > file? > is this a vim encrypted file? according to various sources vim uses the same encryption as zip. There is a tool to convert the vim-x file to a fake zip file so that you can crack it using zip crack tools: http://zeus.phys.uconn.edu/refs/crackers/vimzipper.c I once used a good zip cracker but I can't find it anymore. I just now tried fcrackzip and pkcrack but neither worked. -- sg