Password Cracking

Muffin`

Muffin`

Muffin`

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Big boss accountant has come to me with a file he can't get in, it was part of a batch of 10 which he copied and pasted the password. It's the third in the list and the first two work, the rest do not.

What's my best option here, I'm tring ElcomSoft product at the moment, it's estimating over a day. Are there any other products that can do a better job? It's so important I have a company card to buy software with.
 
Muffin` said:
Big boss accountant has come to me with a file he can't get in, it was part of a batch of 10 which he copied and pasted the password. It's the third in the list and the first two work, the rest do not.

What's my best option here, I'm tring ElcomSoft product at the moment, it's estimating over a day. Are there any other products that can do a better job? It's so important I have a company card to buy software with.
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I expect they all use similar brute force techniques - so it's not the software that's limiting you, it's the hardware.. what machine are you running it on?

And can you use the company card to buy a new machine? :P
 
it's not the software that's limiting you, it's the hardware..
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True.

Use one of your company's Oracle servers (assuming you have one, of course!!) - they usually have a fair bit of grunt behind them ;)
 
I've got 3 e6600's and some x24400+'s running differnt settings - servers are all busy anyway, not looking good :(
 
If he copy and pasted passwords it sounds like he did something else whilst doing the pasting that over writ what was on clipboard, ask him if he remembers what he was doing whilst password protecting the files. May help narrow a dictionary search.
 
He said he wasn't doing anything, I can imagine in a few months when it crack's it starts with "The health and saftey report into the explosion at Immingham" or something :/
 
I told him that it wasn't a quick fix and if he had copied a document in whole by accident it could take months to crack and with a hefty report held in those files he was a dead man walking. :p

He then turned around and said, can you get at the backup's from Wednesday, they weren’t password protected then :eek:

:rolleyes::mad:
 
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