Security Software Review

Advanced ZIP Password Recovery (or simply AZPR) is a program recover (break) lost or forgotten passwords for a ZIP/PKZip/WinZip archives. Unfortunately, there is no known method to extract the password from the compressed file; so the only available methods are brute-force, dictionary-based and known-plaintext attacks. Here is a brief list of AZPR’s advantages:

• The program has a convenient user interface
• The program is very fast: brute-force attack speed is up to fifteen million passwords per second on modern CPUs like Pentium 4 (Prescott)
• Very fast and effective known plaintext attack is available
• The program can work with archives containing only one encrypted file
• Self-extracting archives are supported
• The program is customizable: you can set the password length (or length range), the character set to be used to generate the passwords, and a lot of other options
• You can select the custom character set for brute-force attack (non-English characters are supported)
• Dictionary-based attack is available
• The “brute-force with mask” attack is available
• No special virtual memory requirements
• You can interrupt the program at any time, and resume from the same point later
• The program can work in the background, using the CPU only when it is in idle state

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Advanced ZIP Password Recovery 4.0