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A few weeks ago, I picked this device up from the Dayton Hamvention:

https://poal.co/s/Electronics/538229

There's some programming software that goes with it, but the manufacturer keeps it under password protected zip files. I don't know why, but they do:

http://www.gorman-redlich.com/downloads/ http://www.gorman-redlich.com/Downloads/WinEASSetup202b.zip

I was able to contact said manufacturer and was given a password: GrmnDosPass - but that doesn't work. When I asked for assistance, I got a really passive-aggressive email back stating that they tried to call me but why didn't I answer the phone so they can help me. Maybe because I don't take calls without knowing who they are and random call from local area code is auto-spam? Or for half a dozen other reasons, but the place basically refused to deal with me unless they could call me. Thanks, but this isn't 1974.

So now I have a piece of software that's locked, and I've been unable to brute force the password. Are there any pieces of software that are known to work? I have to assume that it's a password similar to what was given, or perhaps the files are simply corrupt.

A few weeks ago, I picked this device up from the Dayton Hamvention: https://poal.co/s/Electronics/538229 There's some programming software that goes with it, but the manufacturer keeps it under password protected zip files. I don't know why, but they do: http://www.gorman-redlich.com/downloads/ http://www.gorman-redlich.com/Downloads/WinEASSetup202b.zip I was able to contact said manufacturer and was given a password: GrmnDosPass - but that doesn't work. When I asked for assistance, I got a really passive-aggressive email back stating that they tried to call me but why didn't I answer the phone so they can help me. Maybe because I don't take calls without knowing who they are and random call from local area code is auto-spam? Or for half a dozen other reasons, but the place basically refused to deal with me unless they could call me. Thanks, but this isn't 1974. So now I have a piece of software that's locked, and I've been unable to brute force the password. Are there any pieces of software that are known to work? I have to assume that it's a password similar to what was given, or perhaps the files are simply corrupt.

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Yeah. I think I was getting blown off, we'll see what the pay crackers do.

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Well considering their boilerplate password is so short an has no numbers the pay cracker should work. Might even be able to speed it up by taking numbers and special symbols off.

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Looks like it uses ZipCrypto, so it can't be more than 12 bytes anyway - if I read the stuff right.