What makes Advanced Archive Password Recovery special compared to other tools? It’s the special kinds of attacks exploiting weaknesses in ZIP encryption allowing to quickly unlock encrypted archives without brute-forcing all possible password combinations.

Once we added more compression formats, we gave the tool its current name, Advanced Archive Password Recovery. Several months after that, we released the first GUI version of the tool.

We made a command-line tool specifically for that archive and were able to brute-force the password. It all started from breaking a ZIP archive for one of our customers. Back then, it looked like this:ĭo you remember the term “shareware”? It was all the rage in the 90’s and early 2000’s, and this had became our first shareware product, too. Under the name of Advanced Zip Password Recovery, it became the first password recovery tool we released back in 1997. Which archive formats are the most secure, and which ones are the toughest to break? Read along to find out! A Bit of Historyįor us, Advanced Archive Password Recovery is a product we have nostalgic feelings for.

The recent update to Elcomsoft Advanced Archive Password Recovery, our go-to tool for breaking passwords to encrypted archives, brought compatibility with RAR5 and 7Zip formats, and enabled multithreaded dictionary attacks.

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