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haule_nth
April 3rd, 2005, 01:48
Who know how to by pass the password of a Winrar SFX Archive

Hero
April 3rd, 2005, 03:00
Hi
I think this question is asked here for several times.
A general answer:
You can't crack an archives password without checking it bruteforcly or using
dictionary that these ways also can't find password all times.

sincerely yours

laola
April 11th, 2005, 09:11
As Winrar uses strong encryption (AES with reasonable key length), brute-force attacks against a Winrar archive are pretty useless if a proper password has been used. Even Elcomsoft provides nothing better than a brute-force plus dictionary attack tool for Winrar archives.
If your archive was retrieved from one of the common sources for encrypted rar archives, you may end up better searching for the matching password in the same place

disavowed
April 11th, 2005, 21:20
And if you don't want to pay for Elcomsoft's tool, you can get a free one here: http://www.password-crackers.com/crack.html#RAR ("http://www.password-crackers.com/crack.html#RAR")

laola
April 12th, 2005, 04:34
Thanks for that link! Great site Too bad they don't have a free tool for Lotus Approach All I could dig up were commercial tools