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                 PasswordsPro - History of version changes
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2.3.2.0 (06/2007)
	* Speed of simultaneous brute-forcing of large number of MD4 and MD5
	  hashes is increased for 5-10% more.
	* List of functions available for work with files of dictionaries and
	  Rainbow-tables is appreciable extended in the program settings.
	* Feature to copy simultaneously several hashes to the clipboard is
	  added to the "Hash generator" tool.
	* "Dictionary generator" tool is integrated to the program, and further
	  improved:
	  - Feature to continue dictionary generating from the last generated
	    password is added;
	  - New parameters to filter words in the generated dictionaries are added.
	  - Feature to combine several files to single dictionary is added.
	  - Dictionaries sorting settings are extended.
	* During Rainbow-tables attack statistics panel now displays name of
	  current *.RT-file.
	* Small dictionary with frequently used passwords is added to the
	  program archive.
	* Link to forum is added where you can get help with hash
	  passwords recovery.
	* New rule is added to the hybrid attack, as well as default rule set
	  is updated (see "Rules.txt" file in the program archive)
	* Additional program tools are now available during attack.
	* New program settings are added.
	* Bug fixed which caused displaying incorrect number of cores for
	  multicored processors.
	* Some inessential bugs are fixed.

2.3.1.0 (04/2007)
	* Program speed is appreciably increased for simultaneous work with
	  large number of hashes (this is true for all hashes which do not
	  use SALTs - MD4, MD5, etc.)
	* Ability to move selected users up and down in the list is added.
	* Ability to mark selected users for attack is added.
	* Bug fixed which could sometimes occur during brute-force attack
	  causing the program to continue work after finishing forcing of
	  selected passwords range (performing distributed attack).

2.3.0.0 (04/2007)
	* Support for the following type of hashes is added:
	  "sha1($username.$pass) [PHP]", used by SMF forum (version 1.1.x).
	* Feature to display system information about free space at all
	  available disks is added.
	* "Password generator" and "Hidden passwords recovery" tools are
	  integrated to the program.
	* "Password keeper" tool is excluded from the program and won't
	  get further support.
	* "Base64-text converter" tool is renamed to "Text converter",
	  options to import text from file and save text to file are added.
	* The following command line parameters are added:
	  /config:filename - allows work with INI-file other than PasswordsPro.ini.
	  /auto - enables program mode when it automatically launches current
	  attack and exits when attack is finished.
	  These parameters allow to automatize work of the program using
	  BAT-files, and selected types of attack will be run in the consequence
	  specified (see details in the program description).
	* New rule for hybrid dictionary attack is added to allow checking
	  source password with all possible symbol cases (see details
	  in "Rules.txt" file in the program archive).
	* Bug fixed, which could cause displaying of incorrect information
	  in the statistics bar during Rainbow-tables attack.
	* Bug fixed related to lack of memory during Rainbow-tables attack.

2.2.6.0 (02/2007)
	* Speed of attack increased by 50% for all types of attack for
	  MD5 (Unix) and MD5 (APR) hashes.
	* New options for copying information from the hash list are added.
	* Option to shutdown the computer after attack completion is added.
	* Option to synchronously modify identical information for several
	  selected users is added.
	* Option to synchronously copy selected information of all selected
	  users is added.
	* Option to add current date and time to the comments during hash
	  import is added.

2.2.5.0 (01/2007)
	* Slight code optimization for the following types of hashes:
	  - MySQL5: for all types of attack speed is increased for 40%
	    in average;
	  - SHA-1: mask attack and dictionary attack speed is increased
	    for 50% in average;
	  - Domain Cached Credentials: mask attack and dictionary attack
	    speed is increased for 10% in average;
	* Passwords found using pre-calculated tables attack are now
	  immediately displayed in the list of users with hashes.
	* Some new program settings are added.

2.2.4.1 (12/2006)
	* Some inessential bugs are fixed.
	* The program description is updated.

2.2.4.0 (11/2006)
	* 10 new rules for hybrid dictionary attack is added.
	* The brute-force attack speed is slightly improved
	  for all types of hashes.
	* Ability to display system information about current
	  processor and computer memory is added.
	* Some inessential bugs are fixed.

2.2.3.0 (11/2006)
	* Feature to import simultaneously several files with hashes of the
	  same type is added.
	* Hashes list columns sorting is appreciably accelerated.
	* FAQ section in the program description is extended.
	* All additional tools in the program archive are updated.

2.2.2.0 (10/2006)
	* Support of DES (Unix) hashes is added.
	* Statistics panel additionally displays all passwords being found.
	* Speed of work of the program with MD5 (Unix) and MD5 (APR) hashes
	  is increased.
	* Number of users to work with hashes using Demo-version is
	  decreased to 1.
	* Pre-calculated tables attack limits are cancelled for Demo-version.
	* FAQ section in the program description is extended.

2.2.1.2 (09/2006)
	* Some inessential bugs are fixed.

2.2.1.1 (09/2006)
	* Increased speed of Rainbow-tables attack for MD4 and MD5 hashes.
	* Extended FAQ section in the program description.
	* Some inessential bugs are fixed.

2.2.1.0 (09/2006)
	* Further optimization of mask attack and all dictionary attacks what
	  let to increase speed of these atacks up to 5...25% for non-SALT
	  hashes.
	* Added support of MySQL and MySQL5 hashes for the pre-calculated
	  Rainbow-tables attack.
	* Added option to create Russian.lng file with russian
	  program interface.

2.2.0.0 (08/2006)
	* Starting from this version main program function is hashes
	  passwords recovery. Other tools are available as separate
	  Freeware-utilities in the \Tools directory of the program archive.
	* MD4 (HMAC), MD5 (HMAC) and SHA-1 (HMAC) hashes support is added.
	* Users' lists export to separate *.Hashes-files is added.
	* "Tip of the day" information is moved to the program description.
	* Text transformation tool for Base64 to simple text and back is added.
	* Icons updated for the program and additional tools.
	* Link for dictionaries download is added.
	* HTML data export is added.
	* FAQ section in the program description is extended.
	* Speed of password recovery for "Domain Cached Credentials" hashes
	  is increased by 4...5%.
	* New dictionaries sorting settings in the "Dictionary Generator" tool.

2.1.1.1 (06/2006)
	* "Hashes passwords recovery" tool:
	  - Bug fixed which could occur during dictionary attacks with
	    dictionaries larger than 2Gb.

2.1.1.0 (06/2006)
	* "Hash generator" tool:
	  - Bug fixed, which happened sometimes while calculating hashes
  	    for larger files.
	* "Password keeper" tool:
	  - In the box for entering and altering passwords database password
	    current keyboard layout is displayed.
	  - F2 hotkey is added for selected item editing.
	* "Hidden passwords recovery" tool:
	  - New column "hWnd" is added to display Handle for object
	    text had been recovered from.
	* "FAQ" section is added to the program description with answers to
	  the most questions emerging while working with the program.

2.1.0.0 (03/2006)
	* "Hashes passwords recovery" tool:
	  - Support of the new type of hashes is added - "MySQL5",
	    used in MySQL v4.1 and v5.
	  - New type of attack is added - preliminary attack which lets
	    to recover simple password like "123", "qwerty", "sssss", etc.
	  - New type of dictionary attack is added - combined attack which
	    lets to recover passwords composed by two and more
	    words - "admin1980", "admin-admin", "megaadmin", etc. Note: this
	    kind of attack is unavailable for Demo-version.
	  - New type of attack is added - pre-calculated tables attack.
	    Tables for MD4, MD5, and SHA-1 hashes are supported. At the same
	    time there's an ability to create up to 8 different sets of the
	    Rainbow-tables. Note: this kind of attack is unavailable
	    for Demo-version.
	  - Feature to create up to 8 different sets of dictionaries
	    for the dictionary attack is added.
	  - Dictionary attack is now divided on three kinds - "Simple",
	    "Combined" and "Hybrid".
	  - Speed of recovery of hashes "md5(md5($salt).md5($pass)) [PHP]"
	    is multiplied by 2.5.
	* "Password keeper" tool:
	  - Ability to switch text fields using "TAB" key is added.
	    (Tabulation symbol in the "Comments" field can be entered using
	    key combination Shift+TAB).
	  - New service features added: to generate random password
	    (using "Password generator" settings) and to follow the link
	    specified in the "Address" field. There's also ability to create
	    reserve copy of the passwords database before its opening.

2.0.2.1 (02/2006)
	* Bug in the "Hashes passwords recovery" tool is fixed, which could
	  cause passwords recovered via brute-force attack be not displayed
	  of the in the users hash list.

2.0.2.0 (02/2006)
	* "Hashes passwords recovery" tool:
	  1) Feature to change a divider symbol of the hash line fields (hash,
	  password, Salt, etc.) while importing hashes to the program.
	  Note: default symbol is ":".
	  2) Bug occurred while working with the dictionary and hybrid attacks
	  symbol replacement tables is fixed.

2.0.1.1 (02/2006)
	* Bug fixed in the "Hashes passwords recovery" tool what could
	  sometimes result in the "Seek failed on ..." message during
	  dictionary attack and hybrid attack.

2.0.1.0 (01/2006)
	* 6 new hybrid attack rules support is added in the
	  "Hashes passwords recovery" tool.
	* "Domain Cached Credentials" hashes (used for domain cached passwords
	  store) support is added for the "Hashes passwords recovery"
	  and "Hash generator" tools.
	* "Hash generator" tool now supports only those types of hashes which
	  are supported by the "Hashes passwords recovery" tool.
	* Some bugs are fixed.

2.0.0.0 (01/2006)
	* "Hash generator" tool:
	  - New hash and checksum generating algorithms are added: CRC16,
	    CRC16-CCIIT, CRC32, FCS16, FCS32, SizeHash-32, GHash-32-3,
	    GHash-32-5, MD2, MD2(Base64), etc.
	  - Line-by-line text file processing feature is added to get required
	    hash (or checksum) from every line of source file, recording
	    results to another text file;
	* "Password generator" tool:
	  - New settings added;
	  - Passwords mask generating feature is added;
	* "Dictionary generator" tool:
	  - Maximal dictionary size is increased to 1000 TB;
	  - Dictionaries sorting function is added, as well as cleaning up
	    empty and repeating lines;
	* "Password keeper" tool:
	  - Ability to export data to the text file is added;
	  - Ability to change passwords database window width is added;
	* "Hashes passwords recovery" tool:
	  - New dictionary attack settings;
	  - No limit for dictionaries number for dictionary attack;
	  - Total remake of the mask attack;
	  - Hybrid attack is defined as separate attack type, so to recover
	    passwords this way text file with rules set is used, with syntax
	    close to rules syntax for John the Ripper program;
	  - New column in the users list: "Comment";
	  - New column in the users list: "Salt";
	  - Support of two new types of hashes in the PHP syntax is added:
	    md5(md5($pass))
	    md5(md5($pass).$salt)
	    md5(md5($salt).md5($pass))
	* General:
	  - Interface is appreciably improved;
	  - All program settings are incorporated to the one dialog box;
	  - New program settings;
	  - "Tip of the day" is added;
	  - This is the first Shareware version of the program. Demo-version
	    limits are:
	    1) Data export for the "Password keeper" tool is unavailable;
	    2) Maximal number of users to import working with "Hashes passwords
	    recovery" tool is 20. License version has no limit for users number.

1.3.1.2 (09/2005)
	* Bug fixed which could sometimes appear
	  on importing large number of hashes.

1.3.1.1 (07/2005)
	* In this version a bug fixed which caused displaying of
	  negative statistics during distributed attack.

1.3.1.0 (06/2005)
	* Feature to hide program to tray is added.
	* "Hashes passwords recovery" tool:
	  - Speed of attack of MD4, MD5, SHA-1 and MySQL-hashes
	    is increased by 2-4%;
	  - Column sorting feature is added;
	  - Duplicate hashes cleanup feature is added;
	  - Text search in the hash list feature is added;
	  - Feature of export of found passwords in
	    format "User name: Password" is added;
	  - Some new "hotkeys" added.
	* "Password keeper" tool:
	  - When finish work with this tool and close the password
 	    file program memory is totally cleaned to make password
	    store even more secure.

1.3.0.0 (04/2005)
	* New tool "Hash generator" is added what supports generation of
	  10 hashes including MySQL, MD4, MD4 (Base64), MD5, MD5 (Base64),
	  MD5 (Unix), MD5 (APR), MD5 (RAdmin 2.x), SHA-1 and SHA-1 (Base64).
	* New tool "Password keeper" is added to let to store users'
	  passwords in the encoded database.
	* Tools for password recovery from hashes are united
	  to the general tool where:
	  - Base64-encoded MD4, MD5 and SHA-1 hashes passwords
	    recovery ability is added.
	  - Unlimited quantity of hashes to process.
	  - Extended dictionary attack settings.
	  - Feature of display of time to the end of attack is added.
	* Work with "Dictionary generator" tool is appreciably simplified.
	* Program interface is slightly improved.

1.2.0.0 (12/2004)
	* New tool is added - "SHA-1 hashes passwords recovery".
	* Speed MySQL hashes passwords recovery is appreciably increased.
	* New feature added so now you can work with MD5-hashes used by
	  RAdmin v.2.x to store its passwords. There's also new feature to
	  import these hashes from the Windows registry.

1.1.2.0 (09/2004)
	* Feature of management of password check procedures priority
	  is added, and maximal number of hashes to load is increased
	  to 8192 for all hash work tools.

1.1.1.0 (09/2004)
	* New type of attack - "Distributed attack" has been added to
	  all passwords recovery tools. This kind of attack lets to recover
	  passwords using brute-force attack simultaneously on several
	  computers (maximal number of computers to take part in the
	  distributed attack is 512).
	* Hybrid attack what lets to append and prepend to checked passwords
	  up to 2 symbols has been added to all passwords recovery tools.
	* "MD5 hashes passwords recovery" tool now supports MD5-hashes of
	  Apache Portable Runtime (APR) format.

1.1.0.1 (07/2004)
	* Feature of sorting of hashes is added for all tools for password
	  recovery from hashes in the new version. Now speed of brute-force
	  attack will be actually the same with no relation with quantity
	  of hashes.

1.1.0.0 (07/2004)
	* Two new tool had been added to the new version:
	  - "MySQL hashes password recovery" - this tool is for the
	    password recovery for hashes got during the encryption of the
	    passwords in the MySQL databases.
	  - "Dictionary generator"- this tool will be useful for work with
	    any brute-forcers and will let to use "Dictionary attack"
	    more effectively.

1.0.0.0 (03/2004)
	* First public version of PasswordsPro.
