ZIP Archiver has long been used to archive files of various formats, ZIP format has become the standard for file compression around the world. Files in this format you can find on almost any PC or laptop. It's not a secret that zip files can be encrypted to restrict access to the information stored in the archive, so many users put passwords on home archives that store sensitive data. Unfortunately, too often forgotten passwords, and the encrypted file and stored on the hard drive, just in case, or ruthlessly deleted after a few tries to remember the right combination of numbers and letters.

There is a very simple solution to this problem. To do this, you need to use a special program that helps to recreate forgotten password to the ZIP file, for example, Manyprog Zip Password Recovery. To use this utility is so easy, that restoring to the forgotten password archive can be even a novice user. When you use this software you need to specify some criteria Retrieving a password, otherwise the program will look for it for a very long time. These criteria include the expected length of the password and the type of characters included in it. If the criteria are given extremely precise, the password can be found in just a few minutes.

It is believed that the reliability of ZIP archives encryption is extremely low compared to the encryption used in other archiving programs. The ZIP Archiver encrypts only the files included in the archive, and not information about these files, such as the name, comments and so on. It is a long time ZIP archiver used to such an extent simple encryption algorithms, which was created a considerable number of the software, removes this encryption in a few minutes. That all changed when she WinZip version 9, and became archiver to use 128-and 256-bit encryption using the Rijndael algorithm, which is the AES encryption standard. Rijndael has many advantages, in particular, has a very high encryption speed and the smallest resource requirements. Currently, it is the most secure encryption algorithm.

Whatever reliable encryption algorithm, a lot depends on the user. Even with the strong encryption mechanism elementary decrypted passwords utilities for hacking almost instantly. You can not use as a password the individual words or phrases, because these tools are used to decrypt the special dictionaries containing a set of words. Maximum strong password contains at least 8 characters long, includes letters of different registers, numbers and special characters. If all of these rules, ZIP archives will be protected. However, to recover the password and will not be easy, if it is lost.