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Passware Kit accelerates password recovery with distributed computing.
Passware Kit Enterprise and Passware Kit Forensic use the computing power of multiple computers to achieve the highest performance.
Features of Distributed Password Recovery
Free beta version: Distributed password recovery is now available for free to all current Passware Kit Subscription customers. This feature is in Beta now, so your feedback would be highly appreciated. The beta version is limited to 50 computers and expires in 3 months. Passware Kit Enterprise and Passware Kit Forensic with enabled distributed password recovery can be downloaded at the Passware Kit Subscription site.
How To
Follow these steps to use the distributed password recovery:
- Install Passware Kit Agents on multiple computers
- Run Passware Kit on your computer (Passware Kit Server)
- Passware Kit Agents detect and connect to Passware Kit automatically, and password recovery tasks are divided among multiple computers
Installing Passware Kit Agents
1. Run the passware-kit-agent.msi file to install the Agent on node computers. Use the same installation file to install Agents on multiple computers
2. You can optionally configure Passware Kit Agent to connect to a specific server. Launch Passware Kit Agent. The following screen appears:

At the Settings tab, you can choose between Auto discovery and Manual connection to Passware Kit:

In the Auto discovery mode, Passware Kit Agent automatically locates a running installation of Passware Kit over the network. In the Manual connection mode, you can specify the name of the computer Passware Kit is running on.
Recovering the Password
1. Launch Passware Kit on the server computer and select a file to process. At the following screen, click the Enable distributed password recovery checkbox:

2. Choose one of the three options to specify password settings. Password recovery process starts.
3. The Agents tab displays all the Passware Kit Agents detected over the network. You can see the status of each of the Agents in the Status column:

Status "Running the current attack" means that this Passware Kit Agent is connected to Passware Kit and is running the current password recovery task.
4. When the Passware Kit Agent is connected to Passware Kit, the Settings tab displays the IP address and port of the Passware Kit Server, and the Activity tab displays the graph of resources usage:
 During the password recovery process, the status of the Agent is "Connected and busy...".
5. The detailed activity of the Passware Kit and Passware Kit Agents is displayed in the Log tab:

Now your password is being recovered using multiple computers efficiently!
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