How to open a Base64 encrypted 7z File on Windows?

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As the title already describes, I have a text file with base64-code which was originally a password protection *.7z file.

How do I proceed correctly to get the content from this file, under Windows?

My attempt so far was

  1. Decode Content of Text File in ASCII (with a simple Python 2.7 Script)

  2. Save Output as *.7z

  3. Try to open this File with 7-Zip

But that did not work. If i try to open the file 7-Zip tells me, "{Target File} is no Archive".

An example File

http://pastebin.com/f1Rqgs7c

Smartis

Posted 2016-10-24T14:00:41.107

Reputation: 176

Why the downvote? – Smartis – 2016-10-24T14:08:48.240

Not my downvote, but likely because the question does not contain enough information to reproduce the problem. – a CVn – 2016-10-24T15:16:08.147

Added some working exampe File. – Smartis – 2016-10-24T16:28:58.417

Answers

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You can use 

certutil -decode base64encoded.7z decoded.7z

and then open the 7z file in 7Zip, enter the password etc. as usual.

Thomas Weller

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