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Access Password Recovery

Access Password Recovery
$29
 

Welcome to Access Password Recovery - a professional utility for recovering lost and forgotten passwords of Microsoft Access databases. Earlier versions of Access, prior to MS Access 2007, had very weak password protection algorithm that used RC4 stream cipher with 32-bit key length only. The encryption key was a static data stored in one of the system's DLL, thus all you needed to decode a password for any *.mdb database is to use a simple XOR gamma against several bytes of the file header.
Despite the mandatory unification of the password protection for all MS Office 2007 documents, Access developers managed to cause a stir once again implementing the good-old RC4 stream cipher. Even though the encryption key was unique for every database, Microsoft increased its length to 40 bits. That was definitely not enough because the whole key space search took only a few days. Applying the Rainbow tables technology helped to decrease the key recovery time up to a couple of minutes.
Starting with MS Access 2010 the developers draw a conclusion and unified *. accdb database security in unison with other MS Office applications. Access 2010 changed RC4 with the modern AES block cipher with 128-bit key length and encryption key generation consists of 100000 SHA1 iterations. That caused the password recovery speed dropped to several hundred passwords per second even on modern PCs.
Microsoft Access 2013 by default uses an even tighter encryption with 256-bit encryption key size and SHA-512 hash algorithm. So it’s obvious Access 2013 sets a new standard in document encryption, pretty much taking common recovery methods out of the question.
Access Password Recovery was developed with these considerations in mind. That's why it has a variety of smart attacks developed in our company and implied in our products only.

Password Recovery features Features

  • Contemporary, customizable graphical interface.
  • Built-in support for password search using both CPU and GPU power.
  • Over 10 types of password recovery, most of them are unique, developed by our company and used in our products only.
  • Advanced audit reports.
  • Additional tools, including powerful utilities for creating and managing dictionaries. For example, you can create your own wordlists by indexing the files on your hard disk drive.
  • Instant password recovery for *.mdb databases.
  • Built-in support for wordlists in ASCII, UNICODE, UTF8, PCD, RAR and ZIP formats.
  • Great choice of online wordlists for dictionary attacks (~ 2 GB).  Not enough? Consider using our ultimate 10 Gb wordlist collection.
  • Some of the program's functions, such as word mutation, are unique. The total number of mutation rules exceeds one hundred and fifty. No similar application carries this!

Program's screenshots How it looks
Access Password Recovery - screenshots and documentation

Supported languages Supported languages
English, French, Russian.

Problems Known issues and problems
Although contains no harmful code, the program may be detected by some anti-virus software as potentially dangerous or 'potentially unwanted program'. This is also known as 'False Alert', and it's quite a common problem for all known password recovery software.

Free tech support for registered users Technical support
All Passcape registered products include FREE LIFETIME TECHNICAL SUPPORT.

Free lifetime upgrade Update
Register the program and get all new versions for FREE and for LIFE.

Registration Registration
The program comes in two editions: Standard и Professional. An unregistered version of Access Password Recovery shows only first 3 characters of decrypted passwords, has some functional limitations. After the program is purchased, you'll get:

  • Registration key that eliminates limitations of the DEMO version. Some restrictions may be applied, however, depending on the program's edition.
  • Priority lifetime technical support
  • Free lifetime upgrade
  • Confidential help in solving out passwords recovery problems
 
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