ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. updates Distributed Password Recovery, supporting password recovery for Apple iWork documents. With Apple iWork support, Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery becomes an industry-first tool to recover passwords for Numbers, Pages and Keynote apps.

By recovering passwords protecting Apple iWork documents, ElcomSoft offers forensic experts access to a wider range of encrypted evidence. At this time, Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery remains the only commercially available solution to recover iWork passwords.

"The recovery process is painfully slow", comments Andy Malyshev, ElcomSoft CTO. "Apple used strong AES encryption with 128-bit keys, which makes password attack the only feasible solution. We’re currently able to try several hundred password combinations per second on an average CPU. This is slow, and thus only distributed attacks can be used to achieve a reasonable recovery time. However, the human factor and our product’s advanced dictionary attacks help recover a significant share of these passwords in reasonable timeframe".
Blog post from Andrey Malyshev, CTO: Breaking Apple iWork Passwords

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