How to find the position of Central Directory in a Zip file?

Question

I am trying to find the position of the first Central Directory file header in a Zip file.

I\'m reading these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_(file_format) http://www.

Answer 1

Just cross your fingers and hope that there isn't an entry with the CRC, timestamp or datestamp as 06054B50, or any other sequence of four bytes that happen to be 06054B50.