ElcomSoft Distributed Password Recovery

High-Performance Distributed Password Recovery

Break complex passwords, recover strong encryption keys and unlock documents in a production environment. Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery is a high-end solution for forensic and government agencies, data recovery and password recovery services and corporate users with multiple networked workstations connected over a LAN or the Internet. Featuring unique acceleration technologies and providing linear scalability with no overhead, Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery offers the fastest password recovery by a huge margin, and is the most technologically advanced password recovery product currently available.

Features and Benefits

• Hardware acceleration (patent pending) reduces password recovery time by a factor of 50
• Support for NVIDIA CUDA cards, AMD Radeon HD and Tableau TACC1441 hardware accelerators
• Linear scalability with no overhead allows using up to 10,000 workstations without performance drop-off
• Allows up to 64 CPUs or CPU cores and up to 32 GPUs per processing node
• Broad compatibility recovers document and system passwords to various file formats (click for the complete list of formats)
• Brute-force and dictionary attacks
• Distributed password recovery over LAN, Internet or both
• Console management for flexible control from any networked PC
• Plug-in architecture allows for additional file formats
• Schedule support for flexible load balancing
• Minimum bandwidth utilization saves network resources and ensures zero scalability overhead
• All network communications between password recovery clients and the server are securely encrypted
• Flexible queue control allows easy job management
• Storing all passwords that have been discovered, forming a separate/internal dictionary (password cache)
• Install and remove password recovery clients remotely
• Launch agents and server as system services
• Keep track of CPU time and resource utilization, password recovery jobs and user activities
• Industry certified: Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Intel Software Partner, NVIDIA Developer Support

Hardware Acceleration

ElcomSoft has pioneered many software innovations that have made it easier to recover lost passwords from the operating system, Microsoft Office products, Adobe PDF files, Intuit Quicken, OpenOffice and a variety of other applications. The latest development revolutionizes the speed of password recovery without requiring expensive hardware.

Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery employs a revolutionary, patent pending technology to accelerate password recovery when a compatible NVIDIA or AMD graphics card is present in addition to the CPU-only mode. Currently supporting all GeForce 8, 9, 100, 200, 400, 500 and 600-series GPUs and AMD Radeon HD 5000 and 6000-series GPUs, the acceleration technology offloads parts of computational-heavy processing onto the fast and highly scalable processors featured in the latest graphic accelerators.

The acceleration technology developed by ElcomSoft allows the execution of mathematically intensive password recovery code on the massively parallel computational elements found in modern graphic accelerators. The GPU acceleration is unique to Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery, making password recovery up to fifty times faster compared to password recovery methods that only use the computer’s main CPU. In addition, Distributed Password Recovery also supports Tableau TACC1441 hardware accelerators.

Broad Compatibility

Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery supports a variety of applications and file formats, allowing password recovery from Office documents, Adobe PDF files, PGP disks and archives, personal security certificates and exchange keys, MD5 hashes and Oracle passwords, Windows and UNIX login passwords.

Application family	Applications	Extensions	Type of recovery	Password types	Hardware Acceleration
Microsoft Office 2007	Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project	.DOCX, .XLSX, .PPTX, .MSPX	password	file opening password	NVIDIA AMD Tableau
Microsoft Office 2007	Access	.ACCDB	password	file opening password
Microsoft Office 2010	Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint	.DOCX, .XLSX, .ACCDB, .PPTX	password	file opening password	NVIDIA AMD Tableau
Microsoft Office XP/2003	Word, Excel, PowerPoint	.DOC, .XLS, .PPT	password	"open" password only
Microsoft Office 97/2000	Word, Excel	.DOC, .XLS	password	"open" password only
Microsoft Office 97/2000	Word, Excel	.DOC, .XLS	key	"open" password only - guaranteed decryption
	Microsoft OneNote	.ONE	password
	Microsoft SQL Server Compact	.SDF	password
OpenDocument (OpenOffice, StarOffice etc)	word processing (text) documents	.ODT, .OTT, .SXW, .STW	password		NVIDIA AMD
OpenDocument	spreadsheets	.ODS, .OTS, .SXC, .STC	password		NVIDIA AMD
OpenDocument	presentations	.ODP, .OTP, .SXI, .STI	password		NVIDIA AMD
OpenDocument	graphics/drawing	.ODG, .OTG, .SXD, .STD	password		NVIDIA AMD
OpenDocument	formulae, mathematical equations	.ODF, .SXM	password		NVIDIA AMD
	Microsoft Money	.MNY	password
	Intuit Quicken1	.QDF	password
PGP and Open-Key Passwords	PGP zip archives1	.PGP	password
PGP and Open-Key Passwords	PGP secret key rings	.SKR	password
PGP and Open-Key Passwords	PGP disks with conventional encryption	.PGD	password		NVIDIA2
PGP and Open-Key Passwords	PGP self-decrypting archives	.EXE	password
PGP and Open-Key Passwords	PGP whole disk encryption		password		NVIDIA2
PGP and Open-Key Passwords	Personal Information Exchange certificates - PKCS #12	.PFX, .P12	password
TrueCrypt	TrueCrypt disk encryption		password		NVIDIA
TrueCrypt	TrueCrypt encrypted containers		password		NVIDIA
BitLocker	BitLocker and BitLocker To Go disk encryption		password		NVIDIA AMD
	MD5 hashes		password	plaintext passwords	NVIDIA2
Adobe Acrobat PDF	PDF with 256-bit encryption	.PDF	password	"user" and "owner" password
Adobe Acrobat PDF	PDF with 128-bit encryption	.PDF	password	"user" and "owner" password
Adobe Acrobat PDF	PDF with 40-bit encryption	.PDF	password	"user" and "owner" password
Adobe Acrobat PDF	PDF with 40-bit encryption	.PDF	key	"user" password - guaranteed decryption
System Passwords	Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista		password	logon passwords (LM/NTLM)	NVIDIA2
System Passwords	Microsoft Windows		password	SYSKEY startup passwords
System Passwords	Microsoft Windows		password	DCC (Domain Cached Credentials) passwords	NVIDIA2
System Passwords	UNIX		password	users’ passwords
System Passwords	Wireless networks		password	WPA and WPA2 passwords	NVIDIA AMD Tableau
	Lotus Notes (RC2)	.ID	password
	Lotus Notes (AES)	.ID	password		NVIDIA AMD
	Lotus Notes	admindata.xml	password
	Oracle		password	users’ passwords
	TheBat!	masterkey.dat	password	master passwords
	TheBat!	.TBK	password	passwords to backups
	Mozilla, FireFox, Thunderbird		password	master passwords
iPhone/iPod/iPad backup	iTunes		password		NVIDIA AMD Tableau
BlackBerry backup	BlackBerry Desktop Software (old)	.IPD, .BBB	password		AES-NI3
BlackBerry backup	BlackBerry Desktop Software (6.0+ for Windows, 2.0+ for Mac)		password		NVIDIA AMD Tableau
Apple iWork	Pages, Numbers, Keynote	.pages, .numbers, .key	password	password to open

¹ - Sorry, support for this format/encryption is temporary unavailable.

² - GPU acceleration for this format/encryption is implemented for brute-force attack only; dictionary attack (regardless of GPU settings) only works on the CPU.

³ - AES-NI is the new instruction set available in some modern Intel CPUs; for more details, see blog post.

Important note: hardware acceleration (for specific file formats and algorithms only, see the above chart for details) works properly only on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista and Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit); specific versions of NVIDIA/AMD drivers are required; some other restrictions apply. For more details, see GPU Acceleration Frequently Asked Questions.

Ordering information

You can order fully registered version of Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery by credit card (online or by fax), with check/money order, by bank/write transfer or with purchase order. The cost of the license depends on the number of computers (clients) the server can work with.

Please note that the licenses are not "cumulative". That means that, for example, if you purchase two licenses for 20 accounts each, you still will not be able to manage 40 clients/agents from one console -- instead, you should purchase one 100-clients license. To install agents on 600 computers, you should get the 2500-clients license (but not one license on 500 clients plus another one for 100 clients), and vice versa.

We accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Diners Club, and JCB. When you pay by credit card, your order will be processed immediately. Postal mail shipments are initiated immediately. Products available electronically are generally ready for download immediately, or no more than 48 hours after you place your order.

Using the online order form, you can also order the software with Solo/Switch/Maestro (only if issued in UK), by Bank/Wire Transfer, Online wire transfer (applicable only for orders placed within Germany in Euro), by Check (we accept all personal, business, and Cashier’s checks) or Cash.

Online orders are processed automatically and therefore more quickly than orders placed by fax, e-mail, or phone, because processing is not dependent on our customer service center’s business hours. But alternatively, you can order through customer service or with Purchase Order.

How GPU Acceleration Works

Using brute force attack to recover passwords, it is possible, though time-consuming, to recover passwords from popular applications with the power of the computer’s main CPU. For example, an eight-character Windows Vista logon password is as strong as about 55 trillion possible passwords. Windows Vista uses NTLM hashing by default, so using a modern dual-core PC you could try up to 10 million passwords per second, and perform a complete analysis in about two months. With ElcomSoft’s new GPU acceleration technology, the process would take only three to five days, depending upon the CPU and GPU.

Until recently, graphic cards’ processing units could not be used for applications such as password recovery. Older graphics chips could only perform floating-point calculations of varying precision, while most cryptographic algorithms require precise fixed-point mathematics.

The recently introduced chips can process fixed-point calculations. With as much as 4 GB of onboard video memory and several hundred processing units, these powerful GPU chips are much more effective than CPUs in performing many of these calculations.

By utilizing the new processing power offered by today’s GPUs (currently, all GeForce 8, 9, 100, 200, 400, 500, 600-series GPUs and AMD Radeon 5000 and 6000-series GPUs are supported) ElcomSoft offers the recovery speed increase by a factor of twenty, simply by hooking up with a $150 video card’s onboard GPU. High-end PC motherboards can work with as many as four video cards, allowing for even faster password recovery applications for extremely modest increase in hardware costs.

Networking

Linear Scalability

Unlike competition, Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery is not ‘virtually’ or ‘practically’ linear in scalability. By doubling the number of PCs working on a password, you cut time required to recover a password by half.

By only transferring the bare minimum of information over the network, Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery allows for massively parallel operation, and scales linearly to as many as 10,000 workstations with no scalability overhead.

Distributed Recovery over LAN and Internet

Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery enables distributed work over the LAN, Internet, or both. Minimum bandwidth requirements ensure no scalability overhead even for the slowest connections.

Control via Management Console

The convenient management console allows controlling Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery from any networked PC.

Industry Certified

ElcomSoft has obtained numerous certifications over the years, maintaining the following certification levels: Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Intel Software Partner, and NVIDIA Developer Support.

Used by the Government

Password recovery software by ElcomSoft is being used by numerous government agencies and forensic organizations all over the world.

Broad Compatibility

Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery supports a variety of applications and file formats, allowing password recovery from Office documents, Adobe PDF files, PGP disks and archives, personal security certificates and exchange keys, MD5 hashes and Oracle passwords, Windows and UNIX login passwords.

Microsoft Office Documents

• Microsoft Office 2007: Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Project (.DOCX, .XLSX, .ACCDB, .PPTX, .MSPX) file opening password recovery (GPU accelerated!)
• Microsoft Office 2010: Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint (.DOCX, .XLSX, .ACCDB, .PPTX) file opening password recovery (GPU accelerated!)
• Microsoft Word/Excel/PowerPoint XP/2003 (.DOC, .XLS, .PPT) (password recovery - "open" password only)
• Microsoft Word/Excel 97/2000 (.DOC, .XLS) (password recovery - "open" password only)
• Microsoft Word/Excel 97/2000 (.DOC, .XLS) (guaranteed decryption)
• Microsoft Money (password recovery)
• Microsoft OneNote (password recovery)

OpenDocument (OpenOffice, StarOffice etc) (GPU accelerated!)

• word processing (text) documents: .ODT, .OTT, .SXW, .STW
• spreadsheets: .ODS, .OTS, .SXC, .STC
• presentations: .ODP, .OTP, .SXI, .STI
• graphics/drawing: .ODG, .OTG, .SXD, .STD
• formulae, mathematical equations: .ODF, .SXM

  (for full list of supported applications, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument_software)

Disk encryption and Open-Key Passwords

• PGP zip archives (.PGP) (password recovery)
• PGP secret key rings (.SKR) (passphrase recovery)
• PGP disks with conventional encryption (.PGD) (password recovery) (GPU accelerated!)
• PGP self-decrypting archives (.EXE) (password recovery)
• PGP whole disk encryption (password recovery) (GPU accelerated!)
• Personal Information Exchange certificates - PKCS #12 (.PFX, .P12) (password recovery)
• TrueCrypt disk encryption (GPU accelerated!)
• TrueCrypt (encrypted containers) (GPU accelerated!)
• BitLocker (GPU accelerated!)
• BitLocker To Go (GPU accelerated!)

Adobe Acrobat PDF

• Adobe Acrobat PDF with 256-bit encryption ("user" and "owner" password recovery)
• Adobe Acrobat PDF with 128-bit encryption ("user" and "owner" password recovery)
• Adobe Acrobat PDF with 40-bit encryption ("user" and "owner" password recovery)
• Adobe Acrobat PDF with 40-bit encryption (guaranteed decryption)

System Passwords

• Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista logon passwords (LM/NTLM) (password recovery) (GPU accelerated!)
• Windows SYSKEY startup passwords (password recovery)
• Windows DCC (Domain Cached Credentials) passwords (password recovery) (GPU accelerated!)
• UNIX users’ passwords (password audit/recovery)

Other Passwords and Hashes

• Intuit Quicken (.QDF) (password recovery)
• Lotus Notes ID files (password recovery) (GPU accelerated!)
• MD5 hashes (plaintext recovery) (GPU accelerated!)
• Oracle users’ passwords (password audit/recovery)
• WPA and WPA2 passwords (GPU accelerated!)
• TheBat! master passwords (masterkey.dat) and passwords to backups (*.tbk)
• Mozilla/FireFox/Thunderbird master passwords (password recovery)
• Microsoft SQL Server Compact (.SDF) (password recovery)
• iPhone/iPod/iPad backups (password recovery) (GPU accelerated!)
• BlackBerry backups (.IPD, .BBB) (password recovery) (GPU accelerated!)
• FileMaker databases

Ordering information

You can order fully registered version of Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery by credit card (online or by fax), with check/money order, by bank/write transfer or with purchase order. The cost of the license depends on the number of computers (clients) the server can work with.

We accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Diners Club, and JCB. When you pay by credit card, your order will be processed immediately. Postal mail shipments are initiated immediately. Products available electronically are generally ready for download immediately, or no more than 48 hours after you place your order.

Using the online order form, you can also order the software with Solo/Switch/Maestro (only if issued in UK), by Bank/Wire Transfer, Online wire transfer (applicable only for orders placed within Germany in Euro), by Check (we accept all personal, business, and Cashier’s checks) or Cash.

Online orders are processed automatically and therefore more quickly than orders placed by fax, e-mail, or phone, because processing is not dependent on our customer service center’s business hours. But alternatively, you can order through customer service or with Purchase Order.