Archive for November, 2007
Tuesday 27 November 2007 @ 2:36 am
Advanced ZIP Password Recovery (or simply AZPR) is a program recover (break) lost or forgotten passwords for a ZIP/PKZip/WinZip archives. Unfortunately, there is no known method to extract the password from the compressed file; so the only available methods are brute-force, dictionary-based and known-plaintext attacks. Here is a brief list of AZPR’s advantages:
- The program has a convenient user interface
- The program is very fast: brute-force attack speed is up to fifteen million passwords per second on modern CPUs like Pentium 4 (Prescott)
- Very fast and effective known plaintext attack is available
- The program can work with archives containing only one encrypted file
- Self-extracting archives are supported
- The program is customizable: you can set the password length (or length range), the character set to be used to generate the passwords, and a lot of other options
- You can select the custom character set for brute-force attack (non-English characters are supported)
- Dictionary-based attack is available
- The “brute-force with mask” attack is available
- No special virtual memory requirements
- You can interrupt the program at any time, and resume from the same point later
- The program can work in the background, using the CPU only when it is in idle state
Tuesday 20 November 2007 @ 6:31 am

When you connect to a network share on your LAN or to your .NET Passport account, Windows allows you to save your password in order to use it in each time that you connect the remote server. This utility recovers all network passwords stored on your system for the current logged-on user.





