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Python Automation - Encrypted ZIP Password Cracking
Mission
secret.zip is a ZIP encrypted with a weak password and contains flag.txt. Use the shipped wordlist.txt and Python's stdlib zipfile to brute-force the password and extract flag.txt.
Hints
Hint 1 Show
Try each candidate with zipfile.ZipFile(...).read("flag.txt", pwd=w.encode())
Hint 2 Show
A correct password returns data; a wrong one raises -- skip it with try-except
Hint 3 Show
One word in wordlist.txt is the password