The release of a new version of Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery, a high-end password recovery solution to recover a variety of system and document passwords has been announced by ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. By employing several NVIDIA video accelerators, the new release reaches the recovery speed of one billion passwords per second. Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery can recover a variety of system passwords such as NTLM and startup passwords, crack MD5 hashes, PDF files created by Adobe Acrobat, unlock password-protected documents created by Microsoft Office 97-2007, as well as PGP and UNIX and Oracle user passwords. The passwords will be recovered up to 25 times faster than by using CPU-only mode, with the newest GPU acceleration upgrade of Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery.

Today's video cards such as NVIDIA GeForce GTX280 can process hundreds of billions fixed-point calculations per second. Add as much as 1 GB of onboard video memory and up to 240 processing units, multiply it by two by using a couple of NVIDIA cards, and enter the whole new world of super-parallel computational power for just a few hundred dollars. ElcomSoft, unlike NVIDIA SLI mode, has figured out how to unleash the computational power of several NVIDIA cards no matter whether or not they are of the same kind.

The abundance of highly parallel, super-scalar processors in 3D graphic accelerators, until recently, could only be used for gaming. ElcomSoft has found today a way to reach into the future. The company has figured out how to put computational power provided by several NVIDIA boards working together to crack many kinds of passwords.

NVIDIA launched CUDAiIn February 2007, a developer's kit that gives software developers access to the parallel processing power of the GPU. Modern NVIDIA GPUs act as powerful, highly parallel multiprocessors, with huge shared memory and cache.

Just slide a couple of the latest gaming video cards such as GeForce GTX280 into a compatible PC, and get all the processing power of a super-computer at your fingertips. You'll immediately get the ultimate speed to crack the most complex Windows passwords. To achieve the mind-blowing speed of one billion passwords per second for the widely used MD5 hashes and Windows logon passwords (NTLM), Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery enjoys the unbeatable processing power provided by NVIDIA video accelerators working together.