Passware Kit Accelerates Distributed Password Cracking

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and LAS VEGAS, May 25 /PRNewswire/ -- CEIC 2010 -- Passware, Inc., a provider of password recovery, decryption, and electronic evidence discovery software for corporations and law enforcement organizations, announced Passware Kit 10, which is the first commercially available software to accelerate distributed password recovery using both graphics processing units (GPUs) and Tableau TACC1441 hardware.

Passware Kit 10 now uses the computing power of multiple computers to achieve superior performance thanks to distributed password recovery, which divides the password recovery process among multiple computers running Passware Kit Agents. Law enforcement and government agencies, institutions, corporations and private investigators can now dramatically reduce the time-consuming process of cracking strong passwords by leveraging the power of hardware-accelerated distributed password recovery.

"Once considered a lengthy process, recovering a strong password is made much easier because of Passware Kit's ability to connect multiple computers to one password recovery process," said Dmitry Sumin, president of Passware, Inc. "Distributing the process among many computers dramatically improves its speed. The added support of different hardware accelerators, like Tableau TACC and nVidia GPU graphic cards, allows companies with a network of workstations to leverage the computing power of all this hardware to recover the password efficiently and effectively."

The Distributed Password Recovery can be applied to over 40 different file types, including ones with strong encryption, such as MS Office documents, Zip and RAR archives, and TrueCrypt containers.

Customers Worldwide Benefit from Passware's Distributed Password Recovery

Passware customers include many Fortune 100 companies and various US federal and state agencies, such as IRS, US Army, US Department of Defense (DOD), US Department of Justice, US Department of Homeland Security, US Department of Transportation, US Postal Service, US Secret Service, US Senate and US Supreme Court.

According to Andy Malone, Microsoft MVP and Cybercrime Security Forum and Microsoft TechEd 2010 speaker, who has worked with and taught forensic software courses, "Passware Kit is top dog. From lost passwords to complete Bitlocker and TrueCrypt Volume recovery, this is an absolute 'must' for security and IT professionals."

Pricing and Availability

Passware Kit 10 is now available from Passware and a network of resellers in the U.S., Europe and Asia. The manufacturer's suggested price starts at $795. The software comes with one year of free updates. For additional information, visit: http://www.lostpassword.com/kit-forensic.htm.

About Passware Inc.

Founded in 1998, Passware Inc. is the worldwide leading maker of password recovery, decryption and electronic evidence discovery software. Numerous federal, state, and local government agencies, law enforcement and forensic agencies, Fortune 500 companies, help desk personnel, and thousands of private consumers rely on Passware software products to ensure data availability in the event of lost passwords.

Passware is a privately held corporation with headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. and a software development and engineering office in Moscow, Russia.

SOURCE Passware, Inc.