Unlock password-protected archives
Advanced Archive Password Recovery decrypts passwords and unlocks protected ZIP, 7Zip and RAR archives created in any archive version. Decrypt passwords for plain and self-extracting archives created with PKZip, 7Zip and WinZip, RAR and WinRAR automatically or by yourself. Guaranteed decryption for archives created with WinZip 8.0 (or earlier versions) in less than an hour.
Advanced Archive Password Recovery provides the highest possible compatibility for different types of archives, knows the weaknesses of certain protection methods and provides the best performance in decrypting archives of all types.
Extensive compatibility
Advanced Archive Password Recovery supports a wide range of compression and encryption algorithms as well as all popular archiving programs and several archiving formats, making it a universal recovery tool.
Advanced Archive Password Recovery unlocks compromised archives compressed using various methods, ranging from legacy shrinking, reducing, imploding and tokenizing to modern methods such as inflation and WavPack, BZip2 and PPMd.
Archive recovery in minutes: special cases
Certain ZIP and ARJ archives can be unlocked and decrypted in a few minutes, provided that you have at least one unprotected file from that archive. It doesn't matter how long and complex the password is! If you have one file from the encrypted ZIP archive, the entire archive can usually be unlocked within minutes by applying the well-known plaintext attack. Similar ARJ archives are unlocked immediately. Fast recovery is only possible with "classic" encryption, not with AES.
Guaranteed recovery: special cases
After carefully analyzing the algorithms and implementations of password protection in different versions of WinZip, ElcomSoft has developed a workaround that allows for quick and safe decryption of certain ZIP archives instead of conducting lengthy attacks. If an encrypted ZIP archive was created using WinZip version 8 or earlier, and the archive contains five or more files, Advanced Archive Password Recovery can unlock the archive and decrypt its contents - guaranteed! A modern PC will need just under an hour to do this. Guaranteed recovery is only possible with "classic" encryption, not with AES.
Advanced Archive Password Recovery reviews various methods of password protection and implements all possible methods that will help you recover protected archives as quickly as possible.
Complicated AES encryption
Advanced Archive Password Recovery supports the latest encryption technologies, including the sophisticated AES encryption used in WinRAR, 7Zip and the latest versions of WinZip. Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a very strong cipher used by the US government, military and special forces as an encryption standard. AES has been analyzed by crypto specialists worldwide and is an international standard for strong data protection.
If all else fails, Advanced Archive Password Recovery launches various attacks on protected archives to recover the password. If you remember something about the password, this information can speed up the recovery process. Simply specifying the company's security policy can significantly increase the speed of the attack. Can you remember the number of symbols in your password, or did it have more characters than a certain number? Did your password have numbers or letters, or both? Perhaps you can remember the first or last symbol, or say whether it was a letter or a digit? Any detail can help speed up recovery.
Dictionary attack
Most passwords used by people consist of a single word or a combination of words (in a specific language). Before moving on to a brute force attack, Advanced Archive Password Recovery performs a comprehensive dictionary-based attack. Use a small built-in dictionary or specify your own dictionaries regardless of the language. Advanced Archive Password Recovery tries to test single words and word combinations in various combinations.
Brute force attack
If you forget the password, Advanced Archive Password Recovery resorts to the last resort: the brute-force attack. Thanks to the highly optimized low-level code, Advanced Archive Password Recovery offers the best performance for brute-force password recovery, letting the CPU calculate several million password combinations per second in a typical ZIP archive. Since many users choose short, simple passwords, the brute-force attack remains a viable option for password recovery.
