Comment on How to crack password protected rar and 7z files on GNU / Linux by Steven P.
rarcrack is a joke.
The developer pooched the printf function such that the only way it runs is with the “–type rar” switch (it cannot detect normally), and the password generated is NEVER correct. I created an RAR with a password to see. It NEVER found the password, but dutifully spat out a password and called it good.
That is a two hour span I’ll never get back.