Hi,
I don't have Windows Installer, but I need to extract files from .MSI
and .MSP.
Is there a freeware that can do it?
TIA.
?? said:Hi,
I don't have Windows Installer, but I need to extract files from .MSI
and .MSP.
Is there a freeware that can do it?
TIA.
Slash`n`Burn said:Why, when the Windows Installer package is available from soooo many
places
Mel said:7Zip can open some (but not all) .MSI files
Hi,
I don't have Windows Installer, but I need to extract files from .MSI
and .MSP.
Is there a freeware that can do it?
TIA.
Mel said:7Zip can open some (but not all) .MSI files
GamePlayer said:I haven't tried it, but the msi2xml project "disassembles" msis down
to components - not sure if that is going to allow you extract the
files you need though.
that would be a nice feature - but what impressed me most about 7z was thebigspring said:Played 7zip for an hour. It's truly great. But the button for expanding
the drop-down list of folder history does not work. And I hope it will
support, via the context menu as Winzip 8.0 does, simutaneouly
extracting from multiple archives selected from WinExplorer.
that would be a nice feature - but what impressed me most about 7z was the
256 bit AES encryption for self-extracting archives. More recent payware
archivers like winzip have decent crypto (as opposed to the bad joke that
was the password protection on original pkzip) but AFAIK this is the only
decent free compressor/encryptor at 256 bit.
interesting. Can you give me links?BoB said:Be aware, 256 encryption has been cracked, the same as 128 was.
They are working on a better one though.
Be aware, 256 encryption has been cracked, the same as 128 was.
They are working on a better one though.
BoB
According to testimony in 1997 by William Crowell, Deputy director of
the NSA, if all 260 million computers in the world (at that time) were
applied to brute force 128-bit single key decryption, it would take an
estimated 12 million times the age of the universe to break it.
Admittedly, that was 6 years ago. The authors of the paper also
stated, based on Moore's law of processing power doubling every 18
months, in 84 years we'd have that key broken in only a year's time.
Here's the link for that reference:
http://www.cs.georgetown.edu/~denning/crypto/oc-rpt.txt
Really? I must have dozed off or something for the past 3 years. I
use 256-bit Blowfish encryption, for symmetric encryption, and
2048-bit Diffie-Hellman for public key just because I can. For
symmetric key encryption (one key used) we are not going need go too
much further than 128-bit very soon. As long as adequate algorithms
such as factoring large primes ala RSA are used (called "hard
problems") by mathemeticians, you have to resort to brute force
cracking; i.e., trying all possible combinations that the key might be
composed of.
According to testimony in 1997 by William Crowell, Deputy director of
the NSA, if all 260 million computers in the world (at that time) were
applied to brute force 128-bit single key decryption, it would take an
estimated 12 million times the age of the universe to break it.
Admittedly, that was 6 years ago. The authors of the paper also
stated, based on Moore's law of processing power doubling every 18
months, in 84 years we'd have that key broken in only a year's time.
Here's the link for that reference:
http://www.cs.georgetown.edu/~denning/crypto/oc-rpt.txt
Cryptography, breaking keys & codes, will be the killer app for
quantum computing. A capable quantum computer probably won't be ready
for a few decades yet. George Johnson in his new book "A Shortcut in
Time: The Path to a Quantum Computer" stated that the conventional
computing power required to equal a quantum computer based on a single
molecule of 64 atoms would require covering a surface area (land and
water both) of 5,000 Earths with computers.
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