Advanced RAR Password Recovery
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(c) 2000 I.Golubev, Elcom Ltd


Contents
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  Introduction
  Requirements
  Known bugs and limitations
  Where to get the latest version


Introduction
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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
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- 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
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- 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
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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

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