Guess the password of any compressed files.
Advanced Archive Password Recovery is a shareware password recovery app and password tool developed by ElcomSoft for Windows, it's well-designed and advanced.
The download has been tested by an editor here on a PC and a list of features has been compiled; see below.
Recover lost or forgotten passwords to ZIP, ARJ, RAR and ACE archives
Advanced Archive Password Recovery is a program to recover lost or forgotten passwords for ZIP/PKZip/WinZip, ARJ/WinARJ, RAR/WinRAR and ACE/WinACE archives. Supports the customizable brute-force attack, effectively optimized for speed (for ZIP, up to 15 million passwords per second on Pentium 4), dictionary-based attack, and very fast and effective known-plaintext attack. Supports strong WinZip encryption (AES). Multilangual user interface.
Features of Advanced Archive Password Recovery
- Dictionary and brute-force attacks with user-defined masks and advanced templates.
- Exploits all known vulnerabilities and implementation flaws in the various compression algorithms for faster recovery.
- Guaranteed recovery of archives in under 1 hour for ZIP archives created with WinZip 8.0 and earlier and containing at least 5 files.
- Highly optimized low-level code for optimum performance.
- Interrupt and resume operation at any time.
- Speedy known-plaintext attack recovers certain ZIP and ARJ archives in minutes (user must supply at least one unprotected file from that archive).
- Supports all versions of ZIP/PKZip/WinZip, RAR/WinRAR, as well as ARJ/WinARJ and ACE/WinACE (1.x).
- Supports archives over 4 GB and self-extracting archives.
- Supports background operation by utilizing idle CPU cycles only.
- Supports strong AES encryption found in WinRAR and the new versions of WinZip.
Compatibility and License
This download is licensed as shareware for the Windows operating system from password software and can be used as a free trial until the trial period ends (after an unspecified number of days). The Advanced Archive Password Recovery 3.01 demo is available to all software users as a free download with potential restrictions and is not necessarily the full version of this software.
What version of Windows can Advanced Archive Password Recovery run on?
Advanced Archive Password Recovery can be used on a computer running Windows 11 or Windows 10. Previous versions of the OS shouldn't be a problem with Windows 8 and Windows 7 having been tested. It comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit downloads.
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