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ElcomSoft Adv. Archive Password Recovery
Password recovery tool for encrypted ZIP, 7Zip, and RAR archives.

ElcomSoft Adv. Archive Password Recovery
Password recovery tool for encrypted ZIP, 7Zip, and RAR archives.
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ElcomSoft Adv. Archive Password Recovery Description
Advanced Archive Password Recovery (ARCHPR) is a Windows-based tool for recovering passwords from encrypted archive files. It supports a wide range of archive formats including ZIP/PKZip/WinZip, 7Zip, RAR/WinRAR, ARJ/WinARJ, and ACE/WinACE (1.x), as well as self-extracting archives. The tool employs multiple attack methods to recover or bypass archive passwords: - **Brute-force attack:** Attempts all possible password combinations, with low-level code optimizations to maximize attempts per second. - **Dictionary attack:** Uses a built-in or user-supplied dictionary to test common words and combinations in various cases and languages. - **Known-plaintext attack:** For ZIP (classic encryption) and ARJ archives, if an unencrypted copy of a file within the archive is available, the archive can often be unlocked in minutes regardless of password complexity. - **Guaranteed WinZip recovery:** Exploits an implementation flaw in WinZip 8.0 and earlier to guarantee decryption of archives containing 5 or more files within approximately one hour (classic encryption only, Pro Edition). - **"Password from keys" attack:** Available in the Professional Edition only. AES encryption support is included for the latest ZIP, 7Zip, and RAR formats, though guaranteed and known-plaintext recovery methods apply only to classic encryption. The tool supports multiple legacy and modern compression algorithms including Shrinking, Reducing, Imploding, Tokenizing, Inflating, WavPack, BZip2, and PPMd. ARCHPR is available in two editions: Standard (€49) and Professional (€99), with a trial version available for Windows.
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ElcomSoft Adv. Archive Password Recovery is Password recovery tool for encrypted ZIP, 7Zip, and RAR archives. developed by ElcomSoft Co. Ltd.. It is a Security Operations solution designed to help security teams with Password Recovery, Archive, Brute Force.
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