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Listed below are Microsoft Office password recovery products by ElcomSoft and Rixler Software. Rixler's products may be a good choice for nearly-instant recovery of encrypted and/or restricted Word and/or Excel documents (the documents are decrypted and any restrictions are removed). However, as it relates to passwords for opening (as opposed to other kinds of passwords and restrictions that a file could have), Rixler's products do not support the currently less common Office 2007 format files (*.docx and *.xlsx - with the trailing "x"), do not support files encrypted with non-default encryption settings, and do not actually show you the password (instead, they recover the cryptographic key, which enables them to decrypt the document without figuring out the actual password). ElcomSoft's Advanced Office Password Recovery and Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery products do not have these limitations (but their success and time until successful recovery depend on complexity of the password to be recovered).
Office Password Recovery Toolbox
by Rixler Software This is a comprehensive solution for recovering Word, Excel, Outlook, Access, PowerPoint, and VBA passwords. The program features include:
Office Multi-document Password Cracker
by Rixler Software This program will search a directory tree (even an entire hard drive) and remove any passwords (except for VBA project passwords) from multiple Word and Excel documents.
Advanced Office Password Recovery
by ElcomSoft A program to recover lost or forgotten passwords to files/documents created in Microsoft Office applications (all versions up to Office 2007): Word, Excel, Access (including user-level passwords and owner info), Outlook, Project, Money, PowerPoint, Visio, Publisher, OneNote, Backup, Schedule+, Mail. Can also reset MS Internet Explorer (3/4/5) Content Advisor password, and open password-protected VBA projects (created in any application) via the "backdoor". Most passwords are being recovered instantly; the "password to open" in Word/Excel 97/2000/XP/2003/2007 can be recovered using "brute-force" and dictionary attacks optimized for speed. The program also has VBA "backdoor" feature (works for all Microsoft Office 97, Office 2000, and Office XP applications, as well as other programs which have VBA projects, such as Corel WordPerfect Office).
S+ Standard or Professional Edition only;
Advanced Office Password Breaker
by ElcomSoft A program to decrypt Word and Excel 97/2000 files that have file open protection set, as well as Word and Excel XP files with default (Office 97/2000 compatible) encryption - guaranteed regardless of password length and complexity. This is being done by trying all possible encryption keys (rather than only some possible passwords from which the keys are derived) and takes under a week on a high-end workstation. Please note that this program does not work with files created in Word/Excel 95 or older, Word/Excel XP with new CSP protection, and for any passwords other than the password for opening. For such files, use the Advanced Office Password Recovery product instead. Standard Edition uses only one CPU at a time. Professional Edition can also work on dual-CPU (or dual-core) and quad-CPU (or quad-core) systems, using all processors/cores (so recovery speed will be almost twice or four times better). Enterprise Edition uses as many CPUs as are installed (up to 32). Additionally, it includes a DVD with pre-computed cryptographic tables (ElcomSoft's improvement upon so-called "rainbow tables"), which enables it to unlock 100% of Word documents in less than a minute and 97% of Excel documents in several minutes (typical time).
Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery
by ElcomSoft This product is designed for distributed recovery of forgotten or lost passwords of different documents. It allows to:
All versions of Word and Excel from 97 up to 2007 (*.doc, *.docx, *.xls, *.xlsx), PowerPoint XP/2003/2007 (*.ppt, *.pptx), and OneNote are supported, as well as two types of encryption: 97/2000 compatible and the new one (CSP based). Only the document opening password is found; for Office 97/2000 compatible encryption, this program can also recover the key (guaranteed regardless of password length and complexity) and decrypt the file. The program is also able to recover passwords to Microsoft Money, Adobe Acrobat PDF files, Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 logon passwords (LM and NTLM hashes), PGP zip archives (*.pgp), PGP secret keys (keyrings, *.skr), PGP disks (*.pgd), PGP self-decrypting archives (*.exe), PGP whole disk encryption, Personal Information Exchange certificates (PKCS #12, *.pfx, *.p12), Intuit Quicken (*.qdf), Lotus Notes ID files, and MD5 hashes. Support of other file formats is planned for future versions of the program. Password recovery resources specific to a document type:
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