WinRAR Keygen

Principle of WinRAR key generation

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1. What is WinRAR?

WinRAR is a trialware file archiver utility for Windows, developed by Eugene Roshal of win.rar GmbH.

It can create and view archives in RAR or ZIP file formats and unpack numerous archive file formats.

WinRAR is not a free software. If you want to use it, you should pay to RARLAB and then you will get a license file named rarreg.key.

This repository will tell you how WinRAR license file "rarreg.key" is generated.

2. How is "rarreg.key" generated?

See here.

3. How to build?

If you don't want to compile it yourself, you can also go to the release page to get winrar-keygen.exe.

3.1 Prerequisites

1. Please make sure that you have Visual Studio 2019 or the higher. Because this is a VS2019 project.

2. Please make sure you have installed vcpkg and the following libraries:

   • mpir:x86-windows-static
   • mpir:x64-windows-static

   is installed.

   You can install them by:

   $ vcpkg install mpir:x86-windows-static
   $ vcpkg install mpir:x64-windows-static

3. Your vcpkg has been integrated into your Visual Studio, which means you have run

   $ vcpkg integrate install

   successfully.

3.2 Build

1. Open this project in Visual Studio.

2. Select Release configuration.

3. Select Build > Build Solution.

You will see executable files in bin/ directory.

4. How to Use?

Execute the following code in the terminal and configure two parameters to generate rarreg.key.

Here is an example use Github and Github.com:

Usage:
        winrar-keygen.exe <your name> <license type>

Example:

        winrar-keygen.exe "Github" "Github.com"
  or:
        winrar-keygen.exe "Github" "Github.com" > rarreg.key

Now you can see the newly generated file.

RAR registration data
Github
Github.com
UID=3a3d02329a32b63da7d8
6412212250a7d8753c5e7037d83011171578c57042fa30c506caae
9954e4853d415ec594e46076cc9a65338309b66c50453ba72158c0
656de97acb2f2a48cf3b75329283544c3e1b366a5062b85d0022f6
de3cdc56b311475b484e80b48157a0c3af60ca4f7f9c75d49bc50d
6bad616c1c58caa922d3ed0cd19771e8191522a586544c3e1b366a
5062b85d29db066f02e777ad78100865f2c31f2dd3a86998609b18
5eede7ed46566b10bf033daa6384062b259194b1acbd1443042646

Save the generated information as rarreg.key.

5. Invalid Key

Why is my rarreg.key invalid?

5.1 ANSI Encoded

Username and License type are ANSI-encoded string, without null-terminator.

winrar-keygen.exe <text1> <text2>

5.2 Terminal Encode

Issues #5 Be sure to use ANSI encoding, without null-terminator.

You can refer to the Microsoft documentation: Generation of "rarreg.key"

Thanks @Sonic-The-Hedgehog-LNK1123

6. Encounter problems?

6.1 Feedback

If you encounter some problems, you can report on the Issues page. There will be many enthusiastic developers or Github users to help you.

6.2 Security

Some Anti-Virus Software may falsely report. If you do not trust this binary executable file, your only option is to compile the code yourself.

6.3 Thanks

Thank you very much to some enthusiastic developers for helping answer some questions in Issues.

Thanks @Sonic-The-Hedgehog-LNK1123

7. License

The code is available under the MIT license