Re: Using a SETI network to crack passwords

[Jeff Rosowski <rosowskij () ie ymp gov>]

Distributed net, would be a more accurate example, since it has 
historically been used to brute force encryption.

http://www.distributed.net/

Jeff

On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Richard M. Smith wrote:

> 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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