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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Not to be confused with <a href="Elcom_Technology" title="Elcom Technology">Elcom Technology</a>, the Australian Internet solutions software company.</div>
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</style><table class="infobox ib-company vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org" style="font-size: 125%;">ElcomSoft Co.Ltd.</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image ib-company-logo logo"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Company type</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="Private_company" class="mw-redirect" title="Private company">Private</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Industry</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="Software" title="Software">Software</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="Password_cracking" title="Password cracking">Password Cracking</a>, <a href="Information_technology_security_audit" class="mw-redirect" title="Information technology security audit">Operating System Audit</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1990</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data label">Moscow, Russia</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.elcomsoft.com">www<wbr>.elcomsoft<wbr>.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p><b>ElcomSoft</b> is a privately owned software company headquartered in <a href="Moscow%2C_Russia" class="mw-redirect" title="Moscow, Russia">Moscow, Russia</a>. Since its establishment in 1990, the company has been working on computer security programs, with the main focus on password and system recovery software.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>
<p>On July 16, 2001, <a href="Dmitry_Sklyarov" class="mw-redirect" title="Dmitry Sklyarov">Dmitry Sklyarov</a>, a Russian citizen employed by ElcomSoft who was at the time visiting the United States for <a href="DEF_CON_(convention)" class="mw-redirect" title="DEF CON (convention)">DEF CON</a>, was arrested and charged for violating the United States <a href="DMCA" class="mw-redirect" title="DMCA">DMCA</a> law by writing ElcomSoft's Advanced eBook Processor software. He was later released on bail and allowed to return to Russia, and the charges against him were dropped. The charges against ElcomSoft were not, and a court case ensued, attracting much public attention and protest. On December 17, 2002, ElcomSoft was found not guilty of all four charges under the DMCA.<sup id="cite_ref-Ardito_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ardito-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p><a href="Thunder_Tables" class="mw-redirect" title="Thunder Tables">Thunder Tables</a> is the company's own technology developed to ensure guaranteed recovery of <a href="Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word">Microsoft Word</a> and <a href="Microsoft_Excel" title="Microsoft Excel">Microsoft Excel</a> documents protected with <a href="40-bit_encryption" title="40-bit encryption">40-bit encryption</a>. The technology first appeared in 2007 and employs the <a href="Time%E2%80%93memory_tradeoff" class="mw-redirect" title="Time–memory tradeoff">time–memory tradeoff</a> method to build pre-computed <a href="Hash_table" title="Hash table">hash tables</a>, which open the corresponding files in a matter of seconds instead of days. These tables take around four gigabytes. So far, the technology is used in two password recovery programs: Advanced Office Password Breaker and Advanced PDF Password Recovery.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In 2009 ElcomSoft released a tool that takes <a href="Wi-Fi_Protected_Access" title="Wi-Fi Protected Access">WPA/WPA2</a> Hash Codes and uses <a href="Brute-force_attack" title="Brute-force attack">brute-force methods</a> to guess the password associated with a wireless network.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>On November 30, 2010, Elcomsoft announced that the encryption system used by <a href="Canon_cameras" class="mw-redirect" title="Canon cameras">Canon cameras</a> to ensure that pictures and <a href="Exif" title="Exif">Exif</a> <a href="Metadata" title="Metadata">metadata</a> have not been altered was flawed and cannot be fixed. On that same day, Dmitry Sklyarov gave a presentation at the Confidence 2.0 conference in <a href="Prague" title="Prague">Prague</a> demonstrating the flaws.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among others, he showed an image of an astronaut planting a flag of the <a href="Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> on the moon; all the images pass Canon's authenticity verification.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In 2014 an attacker used the Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker to determine celebrity <a href="Jennifer_Lawrence" title="Jennifer Lawrence">Jennifer Lawrence</a>'s password and obtain nude photos.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Wired_(magazine)" title="Wired (magazine)">Wired</a> said about Apple's <a href="Cloud_computing" title="Cloud computing">cloud</a> services, "...cloud services might be about as secure as leaving your front door key under the mat."<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div>
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<ul><li><span class="official-website"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.elcomsoft.com">Official website</a></span></span></li></ul>
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