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Press releases

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1. 16/10/2008. ElcomSoft Utilizes NVIDIA Tesla Supercomputers for Password Recovery. File size: 905 K
2. 09/10/2008. ElcomSoft Breaks Wi-Fi Encryption Faster with GPU Acceleration. File size: 661 K
3. 02/10/2008. Creating a New Reality: Cracking One Billion Passwords per Second. File size: 702 K
4. 16/09/2008. 40-bit Encryption Is Dead. File size: 267 K
5. 16/04/2008. Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery adds Multiprocessor/Multicore Support. Password recovery speed is enhanced by a factor of up to sixteen. File size: 646 K
6. 27/03/2008. Elcomsoft System Recovery supports Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1. Easily Access Your Locked-Up Windows Computer. File size: 999 K
7. 27/02/2008. Advanced EFS Data Recovery Breaks Vista and Windows Server 2008 Encryption. File size: 215 K

White papers

1. Open Sesame!. The easy way to restore access passwords to files, applications and databases. File size: 2220 K
2. An effective approach to restoring system access in Windows. File size: 1999 K
3. Proactive is better than reactive. Testing password safety – a key to securing a corporate network. File size: 1896 K
4. Advantages and disadvantages of EFS and effective recovery of encrypted data. File size: 2064 K
5. Unlocking PDF. Guaranteed password recovery for Adobe Acrobat. File size: 2173 K
6. Size does matter. Advantages of distributed password recovery. File size: 1864 K
7. ElcomSoft Solutions in the corporate information security environment. File size: 2089 K

Presentations

22/10/2008	Further steps in password recovery: Multi-GPU and Supercomputers
	Nowadays graphic cards are becoming increasingly fast and it is very tempting to aim this power at challenging computation task. In this presentation I will show how GPUs can be applied to significantly accelerate password recovery (which usually translates to doing some cryptography as fast as possible). I will also show how to build PC capable of recovering Windows passwords hashes at a rate of 1.5 billion passwords per second for less than $2000.
18/10/2008	Passwort cracking without Russian mafia
	When an employee gets fired, often finds the employer a lot of password-protected documents on his or her computer. The files are here without any possibility of getting access to them, right? Wrong. The Russian company ElcomSoft claims to recover the passwords and, thus, save critically important documents. Vladimir Katalov, CEO of ElcomSoft, told PC Professionell about password recovery methods based on the complex cryptographic algorithms. Then the camera-shy CEO yielded the floor to his marketing expert Katerina Korolkova. Besides explaining other issues, she answered the editor’s tricky question on whether ElcomSoft’s tech guys come from the Russian mafia.
24/04/2008	Faster Password Recovery with modern GPUs
	This talk is about using graphic processors for accelerating cryptographic algorithms and, thus, password recovery. Some information on GPU architecture will be given along with general optimization strategies. Step by step, you'll see how to build GPU-enabled password cracker from ground up and turn your GeForce into password crunching machine :-)
24/10/2007	Breakthrough in Password Recovery: Thunder Tables® and GPUs
	This talk focuses on the latest technologies implemented for password recovery. The first one is the use of computational power of NVIDIA graphic cards that increases the recovery speed dramatically on generally available hardware. The other celebrates an important upgrade of Rainbow tables. Newly designed hash tables (Thunder Tables®) guaranty almost instant recovery with 100% certainty.