Recover RAR, 7z, and ZIP archive passwords on Linux (2026)
rarcrack is long abandoned. The 2026 way to recover a RAR/7z/ZIP password is to extract a hash with John the Ripper's rar2john/7z2john/zip2john, then run it through hashcat (GPU) or john. Dictionary first, then masks. Covers the right hashcat mode for each format.