Rar encryption tends to vary depending on the program/settings you choose when creating a protected file. Basic rar encryption is some variation of AES with a key (ie 128bit) I believe. The most common crackers are dictionary/bruteforce attacks on the password and tend to take forever.
Bruteforce is plausible if you can refine the guesses enough. Rar files made by OEMs with product specs etc.... tend to have very long non dictionary passwords making a conventional bruteforce approach unrealistic. If you believe the password is short enough, a dictionary or bruteforce attack might be worth your wild. The nvidia cuda drivers and some clever scripting(or programing) can speed things along substantially with the right graphics card(s), IMO. Chris... On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Chris Louden <[email protected]> wrote: > Of you have a rar file thT requires a passwordnto extract you should get the > password from whomever made the rar. If you want to crack it. Talk to > Sokolov. > > -Chris > > On Nov 19, 2009, at 3:55 PM, Paul Saenz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> where can i get an rar extractor that doesn't ask me for passwords, >> or is there a default password for rar. I need one both for win and linux. >> Thanks >> Paul >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > -- "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." -Roger Penrose _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list [email protected] http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
