Passcape Dictionaries Collection

Passcape Dictionaries Collection (further referred to as PDC) is the result of the many months of work, a unique collection of wordlists and pass-phrases gathered from a wide range of public and commercial sources. PDC includes two separate collections, 2 CDs which can be purchased independently:
- PDC1, consisting of around two dozens of language dictionaries, over a dozen of subject-focused, a number of international dictionaries, and much more.
- PDC2 is a collection of dictionaries with phrases and expressions.


What is it for
Each dictionary from PDC1 is a text file (completed by the .dic extension). Lines are terminated with the CR-LF pair, Windows encoding. All the strings are arranged by the alphabetical order and are duplicate-free. The dictionaries are ready for use in password recovery applications that implement dictionary attack.
Dictionary attack is one of the most efficient tools for the recovery of passwords that are not stored explicitly. For instance, Windows user account passwords. During such attack, the program checks word after word from the specified dictionary until the initial password is found. This technique is efficient since many people use regular words and phrases for their passwords. Certainly, the greater the dictionary is, the greater is your chances to recover the initial password.
Dictionaries of PDC2 are much alike, except that each string in the dictionary contains a complete pass-phrase instead of a single word. For example, 'to be or not to be' or 'the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'. PDC2 is meant for the use with Passcape Software products in pass-phrase attack.
The pass-phrase attack has not been practically used in password recovery applications until recently, mainly, because of the too great amount of labor required for the composition of the dictionaries. In the meantime, pass-phrase attack is an extremely efficient tool for recovering composite, complex, and multiple-word passwords.

Where and how it is to be used
It's not that easy to find a decent collection of unique dictionaries online. Good dictionaries are normally large, and downloading them takes quite some time.
One of original and courageous solutions is using online dictionaries, like the way it is implemented in Network Password Recovery Wizard, Opera Password Recovery or Mozilla Password Recovery. However, with this approach, such dictionaries, unfortunately, can hardly be used with other applications. The best solution of the issue would be to use precompiled collections of thematic dictionaries like PDC1 and PDC2.
The use of dictionaries collection in password recovery software doesn't seem hard even for a novice user. All it normally takes is to set path to dictionary (or to several dictionaries) in a program's settings before launching the dictionary attack. Since all PDC dictionaries are ready for use, you can even specify a path to the CD with the dictionaries, so you don't need to have them copied to your computer's hard drive beforehand.

Advantages of Passcape Dictionaries Collection
- PDC is the result of the many months of hard and careful work on gathering, formatting, and creating unique wordlists and pass-phrases.
- PDC includes the list of 26 language dictionaries, several dozens of thematic ones, and somewhat around 30 pass-phrase dictionaries. The total size of all of the dictionaries is about 1.15 GB (over 640 MB for PDC1 and approximately 500 MB for PDC2) and around 81 mln. records. See details, technical specification and statistics for PDC1 and PDC2;
- PDC is the saving of disk space, bandwidth consumption and valuable time.
- PDC is the unique content you'll never find anywhere else on the net.

Requirements
Windows/*nix all versions, CD-ROM.

Compatibility
Compatible with almost all Windows and *nix password recovery software.

  Pricing, delivery terms and order processing

• Passcape Dictionaries Collections 1, physical delivery - $24.95
• Passcape Dictionaries Collections 2, physical delivery - $24.95
• Passcape Dictionaries Collections 1, paid download link (zip file, 178 Mb) - $16.00
• Passcape Dictionaries Collections 2, paid download link (zip file, 156 Mb) - $16.00

Shipping costs up to $2.00 and included into the price ($24.95).

Disk orders are processed and sent within 2 business days since the reception of the order. The disks are shipped from Vancouver, Canada; all disks will be sent over Air Mail Canada Post. An average delivery from the moment the disk is sent takes 5-14 days for North America, 7-14 for Europe, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Mexico. The delivery to Russia, India, Israel, Middle East and Africa countries takes significant time, which exceeds 2 weeks.

How does PDC1 look like
PDC2 snapshots
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