A leader in password recovery, ElcomSoft, has added multiprocessor and multicore support to Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery v. 2.50.

Administrators are offered by ElcomSoft's Windows password recovery software a comprehensive solution for recovering passwords to documents and files when employees forget their passwords, or when they deliberately add passwords to documents in an effort to sabotage their companies. The software is also used by police, forensics, and military specialists worldwide to open locked documents.

Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery provides password recovery solutions for LM/NTLM Lotus Notes ID files, hashes used in Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008 logon passwords, PKCS#12 certificates, Adobe Acrobat PDF files, Microsoft Money and OneNote, all Microsoft Office documents, PGP, MD5 hashes, and UNIX and Oracle users' passwords.

Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery, with support for the multiple cores found in all current AMD and Intel processors, can operate significantly faster than before to recover lost passwords. Modern PCs have motherboards that can accommodate one, two, or four CPU chips. A properly configured computer can run Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery sixteen times faster than before, since current CPU chips have two or four cores (which are, in fact, separate processors).

The most effective way to recover a lost password, before Distributed Password Recovery, was to put the locked file on the fastest machine in the company, and use brute force to attack the password. Even for documents where strong encryption is being used, the brute-force attack is made very effective because 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,.

"Agents" are installed by Distributed Password Recovery 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. Each agent takes advantage, in version 2.50, of the maximum number of processors available on each computer.

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

Distributed Password Recovery generates little traffic and can be easily installed in enterprise networks with thousands of computers. The Agents work in the background without interfering with 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. The program informs the administrator by e-mail, when a password is restored or a document is decrypted, and starts processing the next task. An administrator can also keep statistics using the Console.