Moscow, Russia (PRWEB) April 23, 2009
ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. updates Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery, adding GPU Acceleration to recover passwords safeguarding PGP Disks up to 200 instances more rapidly. The new GPU-accelerated item uses common NVIDIA video cards to accelerate password recovery, and costs less than items making use of devoted hardware. The new cost-effective PGP Disk password recovery solution is not only far more cost-effective than competitors, but recovers passwords guarding encrypted PGP Disks, which includes full disk encryption, ten to 200 times quicker than CPU-only algorithms and more rapidly than merchandise based mostly on committed hardware this kind of as Xilinx FPGAs.
Background
Taking into consideration computational complexity of breaking PGP Disk encryption, algorithms that are exclusively making use of computers’ principal processors (CPU) are only productive when executed concurrently on several workstations. Thinking about fees of hardware and multi-workstation software program licenses, non-accelerated PGP recovery goods are not only slowest to deliver the result, but are very expense-ineffective. Products based on dedicated hardware this kind of as Xilinx FPGAs to break PGP encryption are faster, nevertheless at the rates starting up at $ four,000 are nevertheless price-ineffective.
ElcomSoft, for the very first time in the market, offers a cost-productive hardware-accelerated solution to recover passwords guarding PGP-encrypted disks. ElcomSoft’s answer not only expenses much less than competitors but delivers the result faster.
“PGP protection had often been and still remains safe,” comments ElcomSoft’s CEO Vladimir Katalov. “We do not assure productive recovery of PGP-encrypted information, specially if a strong password has been employed. On the other hand, PGP customers can nevertheless benefit from some safe protection of their private and industrial information if they pick passwords that are prolonged and safe adequate. Precisely how secure they are? They can figure out by operating a security audit on their network with 1 of commercially readily available audit items this kind of as Proactive Password Auditor and Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor”.
GPU-Accelerated PGP Disk Password Recovery
Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery is the very first commercially readily available password recovery tool supporting extensively readily available, inexpensive video cards to speed up the recovery of passwords defending encrypted PGP Disks. The revolutionary, patent pending acceleration engineering minimizes time essential to receive PGP Disk passwords ten to 200 times, based on exact hardware set up, as compared to CPU-only algorithms. Supporting up to four NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 cards per node and up to ten,000 concurrent workstations, Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery crunches numbers about a hundred instances quicker than algorithms operating on Intel Q6600 (Core 2 Quad two.4 GHz) CPUs, while a single NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 board gives a sensible 15-fold acceleration over the very same Intel CPU.
GPU Acceleration Technology
The ElcomSoft’s GPU acceleration technology offloads parts of computational-heavy processing of PGP encryption utilised in PGPDisk (128-bit and 256-bit) and PGP WDE (Complete Disk Encryption) onto the fast and very scalable processors featured in the NVIDIA’s latest graphic accelerators. When recovering passwords safeguarding encrypted PGP Disks and if a single or much more compatible NVIDIA graphics cards are present (configurations with up to 4 NVIDIA GeForce 8, 9 or 200 series boards are supported per node), the GPU acceleration technologies kicks in automatically. The result is quicker recovery of the original plain-text password to an encrypted PGP Disk.
About Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery:
Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery allows accelerated password recovery for Microsoft Office documents, Adobe PDF, PGP disks and archives, personalized safety certificates and exchange keys, MD5 hashes and Oracle passwords, Windows and UNIX login and domain passwords. Supporting ElcomSoft’s patent-pending GPU acceleration technology and staying ready to scale to above ten,000 workstations with zero scalability overhead, Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery is a large-finish password recovery answer offering the speediest recovery with the most sophisticated commercially available technologies.
About ElcomSoft Co.Ltd.:
Founded in 1990, ElcomSoft Co.Ltd. develops state-of-the-art pc forensics resources, gives personal computer forensics coaching and computer evidence consulting companies. Because 1997, ElcomSoft has been delivering assistance to corporations, law enforcement, military, and intelligence agencies. ElcomSoft tools are utilised by most of the Fortune 500 corporations, several branches of the military all more than the planet, foreign governments, and all major accounting firms. ElcomSoft and its officers are members of the Russian Cryptology Association. ElcomSoft is a Microsoft Certified Companion and an Intel Software Companion.
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