Using a SETI network to crack passwords

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com>]

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/2/prweb346626.htm
 
Moscow, Russia (PRWEB) February 16, 2006 -- Elcomsoft, a specialist in
password recovery, has released Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery. It
offers administrators a comprehensive solution for recovering passwords to
MS-Office documents when employees forget their passwords, or when they
deliberately add passwords to documents in an effort to sabotage their
companies.

Before Distributed Password Recovery, the most effective way to recover a
lost password was to put the locked file on the fastest machine in the
company, and use brute force to attack the password. Distributed Password
Recovery lets you coordinate all of the unused computing power of every
computer on your LAN or WAN, and use distributed processing to restore the
lost password.

Distributed Password Recovery installs "Agents" onto as many computers on
the network as the user desires. Each of these Agents uses brute force to
try to recover the lost password. The program ensures that these Agents work
together, and combine their computing power to find the lost password. The
more computing power available, the faster the recovery speed. 

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