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- Advanced Archive Password Recovery
- ==================================
- (c) 2001 ElcomSoft Co.Ltd.
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- * System requirements
- * Overview
- * Registration
- * History
- * Contact information
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- System requirements
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- - Pentium or higher CPU
- - 8 megabytes RAM
- - Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT operating system
- - less than 1 megabyte of hard disk space
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- Overview
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- ARCHPR is a program to recover lost or forgotten passwords to
- archives (compressed files) of the following types:
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- - ZIP/PKZip/WinZIP
- - ACE/WinACE
- - ARJ/WinARJ
- - RAR/WinRAR (2.x)
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- At the moment, there is no known method to extract the password
- from such compressed files, so the only available methods are
- "brute force" and dictionary attacks (for ARJ and ZIP formats,
- known-plaintext attack is also available).
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- The key features of ARCHPR are:
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- - The program has a convenient user interface
- - The program is very fast: for ZIP, brute-force attack speed
- is up to 15 million passwords per second (on Pentium III)
- - Guaranteed decryption (usually, within the hour) of most
- WinZip archives (with 5+ encrypted files) is available;
- it works regardless the password complexity and length
- - The program can work with archives containing only one
- encrypted file (at about the same speed)
- - 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 lot 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)
- - Very fast known-plaintext attack is available (for ZIP and ARJ)
- - 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
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- Registration
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- Unregistered (trial version) has some limitations; fully
- registered version costs $60 (personal license) or $120
- (business license). See "order.txt" for more details.
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- History
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- See "whatsnew.txt".
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- Contact information
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- Please send your suggestions and bug reports to
- support@elcomsoft.com (don't forget to mention what version
- of ARCHPR you're using). The most current version of ARCHPR
- is always available at:
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- http://www.elcomsoft.com/archpr.html
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- Other password recovery products (for Microsoft Office --
- Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook, Outlook Express, Visio,
- VBA; MS Backup, MS Project, MS Mail, MS Schedule+; Lotus Organizer,
- Lotus 1-2-3, Lotus WordPro, Lotus Approach; Paradox, Symentec
- ACT!, Intuit Quicken and QuickBooks, Adobe Acrobat PDF,
- WordPerfect, ICQ, most popular email clients) are available at:
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- http://www.elcomsoft.com/prs.html
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