Zip Password Tool is an excellent simple utility that was designed to focus in one thing which is to recover a lost or forgotten password from an encrypted zip archive.
It's easy to forget or to not find a password to one of these zip files becoming a bigger issue if you need files stored in the archive immediately. But Zip Password Tool makes it easier with a simple designed Interface ready to run.
It also supports Zip archives encrypted using these methods: standard Zip 2.0 encryption, 128, 196 and 256-bit AES encryption.
The password search methods used are: Brute-force attack; Dictionary based attack , custom charset support for Brute-force attack ( with the ability to select special characters and national symbols) and additional case changes for dictionary passwords.
An efficient tool that recovers lost or forgotten passwords from zip archives.
Pros
- Recover lost password
- Recover blocked files
Cons
- Limited password length for Trial version
- May take days to retrieve a password