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New York, NY - April 1, 2006 - LastBit Software announces the release of the updatedversion of its Express Recovery technology that can recover any password-protected Microsoft Word or Excel filewithin a minute.
Express Recovery is a unique technology developed by LastBit Software, that providemeans of recovering (i.e. breaking the password protection) of any password-protected Word or Exceldocument very quickly no matter how long the password is. The recent research breakthroughs alloweddecreasing the time required to recover a password-protected Word or Excel document from two to one minute.
The technology requires a significant amount of computer resources and, thus, theprocess of password recovery is performed in the LastBit datacenter. The client program establishes connectionwith the datacenter over the Internet. However, the privacy of users is guaranteed as only a small part of the documentheader, containing the encryption data, is sent to the datacenter.
Since each document has to be processed individually in the datacenter (even ifthere are several documents protected with the same password), the charge for the Express Recovery service is applied on aper-document basis. LastBit Software provides a money-back guarantee in case the recovery process failsfor some reasons.
The new technology is implemented in the latest releases of the correspondingpassword recovery software: Word Password for recovering passwords for Word documents, Excel Password forrecovering passwords for Excel documents and the Office Password bundle that contains both Word and Excelpassword recovery modules.
Though the exact algorithms that Express Recovery uses are not known, LastBitSoftware has provided some details on the topic. The Express Recovery technology takes advantage of the fact that dueto export restrictions, the Microsoft Office applications limited the length of the encryption key to 40bit. Huge multiterabyte tables have been built to reduce the time required to search for the necessary encryption key.
The Express Recovery technology is a further development of the Guaranteed Recoverytechnology, released by LastBit Software in 1999. While Guaranteed Recovery recovered any Word or Excelpassword within 24 hours, Express Recovery reduced this time to one minute.
The latest versions of password recovery software that implement the updated ExpressRecovery technology (along with other LastBit Software products) can be downloaded from thewww.lastbit.com website. Free demo versions are available.
About LastBit SoftwareLastBit Software is a division of LastBit Corp. headquartered in New York, USA. Thecompany provides a full range of password-related software, including password recovery tools for a wide varietyof applications and document formats (such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, PowerPoint, Money; WinZip; SymantecAct! and others) and password management software that helps users never lose their passwords again.
For more information visit http://www.lastbit.com orContact: info@lastbit.comPhone/Fax: (877)684-2996
