
For distributed password recovery processes, these dictionaries will also be shared among the Passware Kit Agents. A customer has to specify the location of the dictionary folder in the Passware Kit settings once - the program would import the dictionaries automatically from the location specified. The dictionary should be compiled first with Passware Kit into its *.dic format, and can afterwards be stored on a network drive. Passware customers no longer have to copy large dictionary files to local computers running Passware Kit or Passware Kit Agents. Such files are often stored on network-shared drives, while the password recovery process is launched on different workstations. Large custom wordlists and even memory image files can be used by Passware Kit as dictionaries to recover a password.

What does this mean for corporations and forensic investigators?

Passware has recently released a new version of its flagship product – Passware Kit Forensic 2016.1, which supports shared dictionaries.
