= System requirements =

- Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2
008
- about 6 megabytes of free space on hard disk
- about 260 megabytes of free memory to process RAR 2.9 and 3.x archives
= Overview =
Backup archives locked with a password? Can t access compressed archives from the
last year? Unlock password-protected ZIP, RAR, ACE and ARJ archives quickly and
efficiently!
Advanced Archive Password Recovery recovers passwords and removes protection fro
m plain and self-extracting archives created with all versions of PKZip, WinZip,
RAR, WinRAR and compatible products in their GUI and command-line incarnations.
Latest implementations of AES encryption and the two-gigabyte archives are supp
orted.
Remember something about the password? Great! Advanced Archive Password Recovery
will use every bit of information about the password for even faster recovery.
Totally blank about it? No problem! Advanced Archive Password Recovery will atte
mpt dictionary and brute-force attacks completely automatically. Have just a sin
gle file from the encrypted archive? Unlock the entire thing and decrypt all fil
es in minutes
no matter how long and complex the password was thanks to the know
n-plaintext attack!
Did you know that not all archives are equally protected? Early versions WinZip
had a weakness in the implementation of their encryption scheme, allowing Advanc
ed Archive Password Recovery to unlock archives created by WinZip 8.0 and earlie
r versions in under one hour guaranteed if there are 5 or more files in the arch
ive.
The dictionary attack takes care of passwords based on words in a human language
, while the brute force attack can unlock your archives if everything else fails
. The intuitive user interface allows specifying a variety of masks and attacks,
while the highly-optimized low-level code ensures the best performance and the
quickest recovery of the most complex passwords.
Low-level optimization leads to password recovery speed of millions passwords a
second. Running Advanced Archive Password Recovery in background utilizes the id
le CPU cycles without affecting your regular work. Stop and resume the recovery
at any time to make the recovery process even less obtrusive.