= Contents =

System requirements
Overview
Registration
Known bugs and limitations
Contact information

= System requirements =

- Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows
Server 2003
- about 4 megabytes of free space on hard disk
- about 260 megabytes of free memory to process RAR 2.9 and 3.x archives

= Overview =

Advanced RAR Password Recovery (ARPR) is a password retrieval program for the
RAR/WinRAR archiving format.

The key features of ARPR are:

- ARPR has a convenient and easy to use user interface;

- ARPR works with one protected file at a time (multiple uses of ARPR is possible);
- all compression methods are supported;
- self-extracting archives are supported;
- you can select the custom character set for "brute-force" attack (non-English
characters are supported);
- you can interrupt the program at any time. Resuming is supported;
- ARPR can work in the background, using the CPU only when it is in an idle state;
- ARPR can utilise either a customizable "brute-force" approach, or an effective
dictionary-based approach. The different approaches can be used for all RAR types
and compression methods using AES (Rijndael) 128-bit encryption, e.g., set the
password length (range) of the character set used to generate the passwords, and
many other options;
- A multilingual interface is provided.

= Known bugs and limitations =

- If the archive contains only one encrypted file and it is "stored" (without
compression, just with encryption) -- the performance might be lower than expected,
especially on large files, because decrypting the whole file is required.
- For RAR archives created in versions 2.9 and 3.x, the recovery speed is extremely
low (due to very strong encryption).
- Some multi-volume archives are not supported

= Contact information =

Please send your suggestions and bug reports to support@elcomsoft.com (don't forget
to mention what version of ARPR you're using). The most current version of ARPR is
always available at:

http://www.elcomsoft.com/arpr.html
Also, have a look at our Advanced Archive Password Recovery (ARCHPR) software,
which works not only with RAR archives, but also with ARJ, ZIP and ACE (1.x):

http://www.elcomsoft.com/archpr.html

Other password recovery products (for Microsoft Office and other Microsoft
applications: Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook, Outlook Express, Internet
Explorer, Visio, VBA, MS Backup, MS Project, MS Mail, MS Schedule+; Lotus
Organizer, Lotus 1-2-3, Lotus WordPro, Lotus Approach; Corel WordPerfect, Paradox
and QuattroPro; ACT!; Intuit Quicken and QuickBooks; Adobe Acrobat PDF; most
popular email clients and instant messengers; Windows 2000/XP Encrypting File
System on NTFS; Windows NT/2000/XP user passwords; Windows PWL/RAS/dial-
up/VPN/shares/asterisked passwords) are available at:

http://www.elcomsoft.com/prs.html