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hehehe :)
only need year..to be done
we wish for new solution

guys, the result is negative. he has edited his statement ( on our local forum). at least, i feel safe protecting my files using WinRAR :-). thanks to you all, good inputs for me about AES encryption. :D

A guy compressed a file and According to his hints,
the rar file seems to could be decompressed.
You can take a look at:

Code:

http://www.awarenetwork.org/home/iqlord/other/

Take a look at:try.me try.me.txt

This is what the try.me.txt says(And he gives the hints):

Quote:

Besides common sense and a good amount of patience you will need...

* Good knowledge in how rar packs and protects files.
* Good knowledge in how pgp works and how to crack pgp sda.
* Good knowledge in file headers in general and how to modify them.
* And you will most likely need a hex editor of some kind.
... Programming experience may help you speed up the work!

I change try.me th try.rar,and it need password.
"Good knowledge in how rar packs and protects files."
It seems that you can bypass the password check.

But I donn't know how.
Is it breakable?
Or the autohor is taking a joke?

He knows!

Regards

Of course you can bypass the password check by cracking WinRAR. But this will not help you, since the data is encrypted. Without the correct password (or password-hash) you will never be able to decrypt the data in a way it could be decompressed. You should better read a bit about the basics of cryptography, if you don't understand how this works.

And when I read the "hints" the author gave you, I was 100% sure that it's a fake. WinRAR doesn't have anything to do with PGP SFX and nothing can be done by modifying the file headers.