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Forget your password?

By Karl De Abrew on 28 December, 2008 | , No Comment

Elcomsoft’s latest version of their product Advanced PDF Password Recovery claims to recover or remove passwords up to 100 times faster due to a bug they claim to have found in Adobe Acrobat version 9.0.

Features and Benefits

  • Supports all versions of Adobe Acrobat, including Acrobat 9
  • Supports GPU acceleration
  • Supports all third-party products producing PDF files
  • Instantly unlocks PDF documents with printing, copying and editing restrictions
  • Removes “owner” and “user” passwords
  • Recovers passwords to open
  • Supports 40-bit and 128-bit RC4 encryption as well as 128-bit and 256-bit AES encryption
  • Patent-pending Thunder Tables™ technology recovers 40-bit passwords in a matter of minutes
  • Dictionary and brute-force attacks with user-defined masks and advanced templates
  • Three editions to satisfy the most demanding and savvy customers
  • Optionally removes JScript code, form fields and digital signatures
  • Batch mode allows automatic processing of multiple files
  • Highly optimized low-level code optimized for modern multi-core CPUs

The high-end Enterprise version also includes a somewhat ominous sounding “Thunder table” which they they guarantee will recover a 40-bit encrypted document in a matter of minutes.

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