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diff --git a/misc/rarcrack/README b/misc/rarcrack/README index dc12ac6369..0ac5e309f3 100644 --- a/misc/rarcrack/README +++ b/misc/rarcrack/README @@ -1,8 +1,13 @@ -rarcrack (Password cracker for rar archives) +rarcrack (password cracker for rar/7z/zip archives) -rarcrack uses a brute force algorithm to guess your encrypted +rarcrack uses a brute force algorithm to guess your encrypted compressed file's password. This program can crack zip, 7z and rar file passwords. -NOTE: for work this require: p7zip, unrar. +Optional (recommended) dependencies: At runtime, you'll need unrar to +crack rar files, and/or p7zip to crack 7z files. + +Note: this is *really slow*, as it executes zip/7z/rar repeatedly, +once per generated password. If you're dealing with a zip file, +fcrackzip is much faster (but doesn't support 7z or rar). |