MOSCOW, April 23 /PRNewswire/ --     ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. updates Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery,
adding GPU acceleration to recover PGP(R) Disk passwords up to 200 times
faster. The new GPU-accelerated product uses standard NVIDIA video cards to
accelerate password recovery, and costs less than products using dedicated
hardware. The new cost-effective PGP Disk password recovery solution is not
only more affordable than competition, but delivers results 10 to 200 times
faster than CPU-only algorithms and faster than products based on dedicated
hardware such as Xilinx FPGAs.

Background

Computational complexity of breaking PGP Disk encryption makes algorithms
using exclusively computers' CPUs only effective when executed concurrently
on numerous workstations. Costs of hardware and software licenses make
non-accelerated PGP recovery products slowest and extremely cost-ineffective.
Products based on dedicated hardware such as Xilinx FPGAs to break PGP
encryption are faster, yet demanding the premium due to their steep prices
starting in the $4,000 range.

GPU-Accelerated PGP Disk Password Recovery

ElcomSoft, for the first time in the industry, offers a cost-effective
hardware-accelerated solution to recover passwords protecting PGP-encrypted
disks. Its solution not only costs less than competition but delivers the
results faster.

Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery is the first commercially
available password recovery tool supporting inexpensive video cards to speed
up the recovery of passwords protecting encrypted PGP Disks. The
revolutionary, patent pending acceleration technology reduces time needed to
obtain PGP Disk passwords 10 to 200 times as compared to CPU-only algorithms.
Supporting up to four NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 cards per node and up to 10,000
concurrent workstations, Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery crunches
numbers about 100 times faster than algorithms running on Intel Q6600 (Core 2
Quad 2.4 GHz) CPUs, while a single NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 board provides a
reasonable 15-fold acceleration over the same CPU.

About ElcomSoft Co. Ltd.

Founded in 1990, ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. develops state-of-the-art computer
forensics tools, provides computer forensics training and computer evidence
consulting services. Since 1997, ElcomSoft has been providing support to
businesses, law enforcement, military, and intelligence agencies. ElcomSoft
tools are used by most of the Fortune 500 corporations, multiple branches of
the military all over the world, foreign governments, and all major
accounting firms.

PGP(R) is a registered trademark of PGP Corporation.

Evaluation version of Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery is
available at http://pgp.elcomsoft.com

http://www.elcomsoft.com/