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[Muhammad Shoaib]

If you forget your password for compressed archive (rar, 7z, zip), this program is the solution.This program uses bruteforce algorithm to find correct password. You can specify wich characters will be used in password generations.

Warning: Please don’t use this program for any illegal things!

Preparing your system

First you need to install the following package

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#apt-get install libxml2-dev build-essential

Now you need to download the latest version of rarcrack from here

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#wget http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/rarcrack/rarcrack-0.2.tar.bz2

Now you have rarcrack-0.2.tar.bz2 file and you need to extract this file

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#tar -xjf rarcrack-0.2.tar.bz2

#cd rarcrack-0.2

#make

You must be root to run the following command

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#make install

Using Rarcrack

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rarcrack your_encrypted_archive.ext [--threads thread_num] [--type rar|zip|7z]

Example

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rarcrack something.rar

After the cracking started RarCrack will print the current status of cracking and save it’s to a status file. If you want more specific password character set, you need to run RarCrack to create the XML status file (3 sec).


Original Article at: http://www.debianadmin.com/howto-crack-rar-7z-and-zip-files-in-linux.html