Advanced ACE Password Recovery
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(c) 2000 I.Golubev, Elcom Ltd


Contents
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  Introduction
  Requirements
  Known bugs and limitations
  Where to get the latest version


Introduction
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This program (Advanced ACE Password Recovery, or simply ACEPR)
can be used to recover lost passwords to ACE and WinACE archives.
At the moment, there is no known method to extract the password
from ACE compressed file, so the only available methods are
"brute force" and dictionary-based attacks. Here is a brief
list of ACEPR's advantages:

- The program has a convenient user interface
- Self-extracting archives are supported
- The program is customizable: you can set the password length
  (or length range), the character set to be used to generate
  the passwords, and a couple of other options
- You can select the custom character set for brute-force attack
  (non-English characters are supported)
- Dictionary-based attack is available
- The "brute-force with mask" attack is available
- The maximum password length is not limited (in registered
  version)
- No special virtual memory requirements
- You can interrupt the program at any time, and start from the
  same point later
- The program can work in the background, using the CPU only 
  when it is in idle state

The next versions will have much more useful features, of
course.


Requirements
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- Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000
- 4 megabytes of RAM
- about 1 megabyte of hard disk space


Known bugs and limitations
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- ACE 2.x (beta) archives are not supported.


Where to get the latest version
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The latest version of ACEPR is always available from our web page
at:

http://www.elcomsoft.com/acepr.html

Other password recovery products (for ZIP/ARJ/RAR archives,
all versions of Microsoft Office (Word/Excel/Access), MS Outlook,
MS Money, MS Backup, Lotus SmartSuite (Organizer, 1-2-3, WordPro,
Approach), Adobe Acrobat PDF) are available from our server at:

http://www.elcomsoft.com/prs.html

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