Eugene Roshal Explained

Eugene Roshal
Known:	RAR, WinRAR
Occupation:	Computer programmer
Alma Mater:	South Ural State University (former Chelyabinsk State Technical University), Faculty of Electronics
Birth Date:	10 March 1972
Birth Place:	Chelyabinsk, USSR

Eugene Roshal (Russian: Евгений Лазаревич Рошал|translit=Yevgeny Lazarevich Roshal; born 1972) is a Russian software engineer.

Career

Roshal is best known as the developer of:

• RAR file format (1993)
• WinRAR file archiver (1995)
• FAR file manager (1996)

The RAR compression algorithm is officially owned by his older brother Alexander,^[1] because Eugene Roshal has "no time to concern himself with software development and copyright-related issues at the same time."^[2]

Further reading

• Biography and product timeline based on The Compression Project web page: Russian language interview with E. Roshal accessed 12 January 2010 (and verified by personal email exchange with him in 2011).

Notes and References

1. Web site: RAR and WinRAR END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (EULA) . win.rar GmbH . RARLAB . The author and holder of the copyright of the software is Alexander L. Roshal. [...] Neither RAR binary code, WinRAR binary code, UnRAR source or UnRAR binary code may be used or reverse engineered to re-create the RAR compression algorithm, which is proprietary, without written permission..
2. Web site: Google Groups. 3 March 2017. live. https://archive.today/20210428175843/https://groups.google.com/g/fido7.rar.support/c/V7SqDF1jHG4/m/dr6iAltyBYIJ?pli=1. 28 April 2021.