WinRAR is a shareware file archiver and data compression utility developed by Eugene Roshal, and first released in autumn of 1993.[3] It is one of the few applications that is able to create RAR archives natively, because the encoding method is held to be proprietary.
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[edit]Developer
The current developer is Eugene Roshal, while his brother Alexander Roshal is engaged in running the business behind the software.[4]
[edit]Features
WinRAR supports the following features:
- Complete support for RAR (WinRAR native conversion format) and ZIP archives, and unpacking of ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2,JAR, ISO, EXE, 7z, and Z archives.[5]
- Multithreaded compression
- The ability to create self-extracting and multi-volume (split) archives.
- Data redundancy is provided via recovery records and recovery volumes, allowing reconstruction of damaged archives.
- Support for advanced NTFS file system options and Unicode in file names.
- Optional archive encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a 128-bit key.
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