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Hacking RAR passwords


Wez

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I'm pretty sure rar passwords can't be decrypted and you have to use brute force (dictionary, random words) attack. Can take a long time and possibly not work at all.

 

I'm only going from memory though. Brute force can work really well if the password is a simple word or name though.

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BTW its cracking, not hacking. The most popular are:

http://www.rarpasswordcracker.com/

http://www.elcomsoft.com/arpr.html

 

Both use brute force (you tell it the kind of characters you want to use, then let it try the millions of combinations until it finds it or you can't be bothered anymore...)

 

It's usually quicker to search for the password through google if it is for something you have downloaded, otherwise unless it is a simple word, good luck! (if it's a URL, you have to included upper, lower case, numbers, special characters and set it to a long length - all of which add up to an enormous number of possibilities).

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