Take the tour ×  I would like to know how to extract contents of
the password protected winrar file without the password. I have
downloaded that WinRar file from a file hosting website. I only
found out that it was password protected after I have download.
And brute force attacking take ages. I would like to know is
there any way to make it not a password protected file. One
thing is that I found out that brute force attacking try every
combination of words from the wordlist. I want to know is it
possible to brute force attack the file with one by one
password, not the whole combination, I mean one alphabet, or one
number or one symbol at a time. And when one password is correct
then only try another password. Can you understand it? Forgive
me for my bad English.  share|improve this question add comment
1 Answer  Why can't you simply ask the person who made that file
to tell you the password?  No one knows how to decode an AES-
encrypted file, such as password-protected WinRar files, without
knowing the passw