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Parallel RAR Password Recovery is a utility designed to retrieve lost passwords for RAR and WinRAR archives. It leverages multi-core CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs for accelerated recovery, supporting various attack methods and custom definitions.
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  • Pros

    • Recovers RAR and WinRAR 2.x to 3.x archive passwords.
    • Leverages multi-core CPUs and a single NVIDIA GPU for local acceleration.
    • Supports standard attacks like brute force and dictionary.
    • Password Definition Language (PDL) enables custom attack types.
    • Supports multi-volume, self-extracting, and encrypted header RAR archives.
  • Cons

    • Local version limited to using up to four CPU cores.
    • Local version supports only one NVIDIA GPU.
    • Support explicitly mentioned only for WinRAR 2.x to 3.x archives.
    • No mention of support for other GPU vendors (AMD, Intel).
    • Distributed technology capabilities are not detailed for the local utility.

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Full Specifications

GENERAL
Release
Latest update
Version
2.0
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Windows
Operating System
  • Windows 10
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows XP
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows 7
Additional Requirements
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package
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Total Downloads
2,871
Downloads Last Week
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Recover RAR passwords using multi-core or distributed technology.
Parallel RAR Password recovery is utility for recover lost passwords of RAR or WinRAR 2.x to 3.x archives. Local version can use up to four processors or cores and one GPU of your home PC. The simple Password Definition Language supports all well-known standard attacks (such as brute force, dictionary, misspelled password recovery etc) and also allows users to make their own attack types. PDL language is extremely efficient if user remembers any information about a forgotten password (for example, the password consists of two words separated by a special sign or has some digits at the end). The utility is highly optimized for all modern processors, like Core 2 or Athlon and NVIDIA GPUs. All RAR archives supported, including multi-volume, self-extracting and encrypted headers archives.

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