google it and download the software

dont bother . get the file somewhere else . it could take you days to crack it

Yes, the new winrar password encryption algorythm is REALLY slow thus making bruteforcing nearly impossible. I and my friend had done a bruteforcing test one month ago. His hardware averaged at around 500million sha1 hashes per second, nearly a billion md5 hashes per second and only a few thousand of winrar hashes per second :/

it is possible but it would take long,still if your files are worth it,its worth waiting.free versions will usually crack about 3 characters max as far as i know.it gets it pretty fast if the password is 3 characters,but the good thing is that u can set it to work in background and do whatever else on pc for that time however i think you should stay out of resource hungry activities,games n stuff

yeah, don't waste time for something you can get from another source with probably A LOT less effort and time.

GPU brute force is the fastest but anything with more than 6 characters or randomised is pointless, even with a powerful GPU managing a few thousand a second on 6 could take half a day, on 7 it could take weeks. Every extra character adds an exponential number of possibilities

nowadays when it's somewhat popular to use URLs as simple passwords, the length+unusual characters make them very strong as a side-effect.

Yeah. Anything with more than 6 characters is essentially unbreakable for brute force without a supercomputer currently, which is why most security asks for at least 6 minimum. If you have 7 and there is a mix of punctuation and such it would take a decent GPU a couple weeks on a brute force at best

brute force is for dummies

At 2000 passwords/sec it'd take 43 hours to crack a 6 symbol password which consists of lowercase letters. Make it lowercase+uppercase+digits and it skyrockets to 328 days.

Not that posible m8s

you people dont know much about password cracking methods do you? Dictionary attack?

Dictionary attack.. Seriously?

yip. Human factor. We use simple passwords of names etc because we seem to forget the dufficult out of sorts generated passwords. if you got good dictionarys 7 hours tops its done well thats the longest it ever took me for a rar file belowe 9.

@weater dictionary attack ?? WTF?!?! 8 letter pass.. let's say uper+lower+digits+SOME special signs... it makes around 100 diff signs... now calculate how big dictionary you need...

it would basicly took around 20.000TB of hard drive just to create complete dictionary with 8 simbols ! can you imagine how big all this goes if i set pass with 12 simbols lenght ???!!!

and thats basicly the only reason why rar archive pass CANNOT be taken with dictionary attack.. and thats also the only reason why WPA/2 is so safe.. if you by any chance got clue what that could be...

by the time you could manage to actually create dictionary... file will become old and useless...

Common password dictionary works well if you have a bunch of passwords from different ppl. If you have a single pass to crack you're pretty much screwed :/