I left myself a note on the file so I have an idea, the note is long password plus date plus sign, meaning the password I used at the time, plus my birthdate, plus my zodiac sign. The problem is I forgot which password I was using then, and can't remember the date format, or if the sign was capitalized in any way.
I found this: https://defendtheweb.net/article/cracking-zip-files-known-plaintext-attack but for me to go this route I need to see the contents of the older so I can see if I have any of the files locally. The problem there is I can't see what's in the file. All I get is the password prompt. I have tried as many variations of the password myself and so far none have worked.
Is there a way to do a brute-force attack where I give it all the words to use? If so I can input all the passwords I have used, the dates, and variations of my Zodiac if it even needs me to use the capitals.
It's probably not an important folder, and I have changed how I save passwords, I now use a combination of a password and a PGP key I generated since Winrar seems to let you use infinite characters for the password, and I save the PGP key as plaintext, but renamed as something completely random that I know, saved across multiple drives. And in my email. Just tested one of those archives, still works fine, but this old one is driving me nuts.
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