How to brute force ARJ password

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The other day I found a 3,5" floppy in my basement. It's one of my backup floppies I used in 1995 and it has several ARJ archives on it. I still have a floppy drive and yes, it is still readable :-)

The thing is that the archives are password protected. Can anyone name a password cracker for arj archives that runs on linux?

If you don't find one for Linux, anything that works for DOS will work with dosemu. — Stéphane Chazelas, May 11 '15 at 20:09

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 11 '15 at 22:19

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After 3 days of searching and finally asking here, I just came across this: http://www.password-crackers.com/en/category_100/program_16.html

It's only listed as being for Windows, but has a 32 bit ELF executable as well.

I successfully unarchived a MS-Word file from 1989-07-25, must have been Word 3 or Word 4 at that time... OMG, digital archeology!

History of Microsoft Word https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwXkzH_Rf3k

answered May 11 '15 at 22:19

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the archive from their file has a password itself. – franck Oct 04 '18 at 05:35

How to brute force ARJ password

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