Released on = March 24, 2006, 2:47 am

Press Release Author = ElcomSoft Co. Ltd.

Industry = Software

Press Release Summary = Two PCs recover passwords quicker than one. Try to use all
your computers...

Press Release Body = Contact:
Dmitry Harchenko, Marketing Director
pr@elcomsoft.com

Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery Unlocks PGP Protection

Elcomsoft, a specialist in password recovery, has added PGP support to Elcomsoft
Distributed Password Recovery. The program 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. The latest version can handle PGP encryption, including
PGP secret key rings (.SKR files), PGP disks (.PGD files), and PGP self-decrypting
archives.

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.

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is the strongest industry-standard encryption, and is
widely used in all consumer and corporate markets. It is based on assymetric keys
(public and private). If the private key is not available, then using brute force
methods to break the encryption would take centuries, even on today\'s fastest
computer. Elcomsoft has discovered a way to use the power of its Distributed
Password Recovery software to recover 5-character - and even longer - PGP passwords.

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.

Another module of the program, the Console, is designed to manage the agents. This
solution is best for big enterprisers with thousands of clients when employees leave
without un-protecting their mission-critical documents.

According to Elcomsoft, the program restores passwords for Word and Excel documents
encrypted with 40 bit keys (Office 97/2000 compatible) as well as more recent
documents (Office XP/2003) encrypted with CSP. Office 97/2000 documents can be also
decrypted by recovery of encryption keys instead of password, and that type of
attack gives a guaranteed result regardless of password length and complexity.

Distributed Password Recovery can be easily installed in enterprises networks with
thousands of computers and needs little traffic. The agents work in the background
without harming other programs. That is, they use the CPU only when it is in its
idle state. An administrator can get a report about the work that is done. When a
password is restored or a document is decrypted, the program informs the
administrator by e-mail, and starts processing the next task. Using the Console, an
administrator can also keep statistics.

The software has a plug-in architecture and can be easily extended to support more
document formats and types of encryption. Future releases will support Adobe Acrobat
PDF files, ZIP and RAR archives, and more.

Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery v. 1.1 runs under Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003
and requires 4 MB of hard disk space on the server and 2 MB on every client. Prices
begin at $599(US) for networks with up to 20 clients/agents. For more information
and a free trial version of Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery, please visit
http://edpr.elcomsoft.com

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Evaluation Copy Available on Request

About ElcomSoft Co. Ltd.

Since 1990, ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. has been developing and marketing password recovery,
forensics, and security software for Windows. In addition to Distributed Password
Recovery, the company also offers a comprehensive line of password recovery and
password auditing software for popular Microsoft, Lotus, Corel and Adobe software,
as well as dozens of popular email clients, compression programs, instant messenger
applications, and other applications.

ElcomSoft is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. ElcomSoft\'s tools are used by most
of the Fortune 500 corporations, many branches of the military worldwide,
international governments, all major accounting companies, and firms and
institutions of all sizes.

Web Site = http://www.elcomsoft.com/edpr.html

Contact Details = Address: Zvezdnyi blvd. 21, office 541, Moscow
Russian Federation

Phone Number: +7 495 974-1162
Email: support@elcomsoft.com