Advanced.RAR.Password.Recovery.v.1.11

Advanced RAR Password Recovery ============================== (c) 2000 I.Golubev, Elcom Ltd Contents -------- Introduction Requirements Known bugs and limitations Where to get the latest version Introduction ------------ This program (Advanced RAR Password Recovery, or simply ARPR) can be used to recover the lost password for a RAR archive. At the moment, there is no known method to extract the password from the compressed file, so the only available methods are "brute force" and dictionary-based attacks. Here is a brief list of ARPR's advantages: - The program has a convenient user interface - Self-extracting archives are supported - The program is customizable: you can set the password length (or length range), the character set to be used to generate the passwords, and a couple of other options - You can select the custom character set for brute-force attack (non-English characters are supported) - Dictionary-based attack is available - The "brute-force with mask" attack is available - The maximum password length is not limited (in registered version) - No special virtual memory requirements - You can interrupt the program at any time, and start from the same point later - The program can work in the background, using the CPU only when it is in idle state The next versions will have much more useful features, of course. Requirements ------------ - Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000 - 4 megabytes of RAM - about 1 megabyte of hard disk space Known bugs and limitations -------------------------- - When the files in archive are "stored" (without compression, just with encryption) -- the speed might be much lower than expected (especially on large files), because decrypting the whole file is required. - RAR 1.x archives are not supported. Where to get the latest version ------------------------------- The latest version of ARPR is always available from our web page at http://www.elcomsoft.com/arpr.html. Other password recovery products (for ZIP/ARJ/ACE archives, Microsoft Access 95/97/2000 databases, Microsoft Word/Excel (all versions), VBA code (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio), Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Money, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Backup, Lotus Organizer, Lotus WordPro, Lotus 1-2-3, Lotus Approach, Borland.Corel Paradox, Adobe Acrobat PDF, Intuit Quicken, Intuit QuickBooks) are available from our server at: http://www.elcomsoft.com/prs.html If you'd like to receive notifications about new releases of password recovery software, please subscribe to our mailing list; mailing list archive and subscription information is available at: http://prsoftware.listbot.com