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Does 7z or RAR5 offer better resistance to brute force attacks?
Does 7z or RAR5 offer better resistance to brute force attacks?
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Encrypted 7z file password not working
I'm in an interesting predicament. I have an encrypted 7z file that I made myself. The password for the file is a 60 character generated password that I saved to my password manager. I made sure to ...
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Application to archive a file with multiple passwords [duplicate]
Is there an application to create an archive (e.g. 7z, zip, rar, etc) that can be accessed with multiple valid passwords?
For example the password protected archive "example.7z" can be ...
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Cracking Lost Password for encrypted 7z file with most characters known
I forgot password to 7z archive encrypted with AES 256. I am fairly certain of most characters however. I know password length is either 8 or 12 characters and if it is 12 I know the last 4 characters....
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Can I consider files compressed with password safe at all?
A follow up to my 7,5 years old question. Back 10-15 years ago, when I wanted to send an executable file over Gmail from my PC, all I had to do was to change file's extension to some meaningless one ...
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Recovered a 7z password with hashcat, but it's not the right one
I am trying to recover a 7z file, but have forgotten the password. It's completely AES-256 encrypted (i.e. not even the filenames are available).
Steps:
Generated hash file with 7z2hashcat.pl
Ran a ...
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