Saturday 2 November 2013

Old forgotten encripted files

Dear me, I've just found some old embarrassing poetry from the 1990's. Well I know that's what it is but I encrypted it to stop nosey family members from looking when I lived with my family and used their computer.
It looks like to find out what I wrote I'm going to have to decrypt it but I forgot the password. I better try  "Rarcrack-0.2"

make sure I have libxml2-dev build-essential on my system if not

Terminal

apt-get install libxml2-dev build-essential


Download Rarcrack from the Internet. Sourceforge.

place rarcrack-0.2.tar.bz2 in the home folder along with poetry.rar

unpack rarcrack

Terminal
tar -xjf rarcrack-0.2.tar.bz2

got to the folder

Terminal
cd rarcrack-0.2

then build the program

Terminal
make

then as root install it.

Terminal
sudo make install

Now all I have to do is use it as a command in Terminal for anything I want to try and decrypt. Hope I didn't put too long a password on this thing.

Terminal
rarcrack poetry.rar