Interview with Vladimir Katalov, CEO of ElcomSoft
by Mirko Zorz - HNS Chief Editor - Thursday, 7 September 2006.
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We see most vendors constanly increasing the level of security in new versions of their software -- e.g. using new crypto algorithms (and/or longer encryption keys), providing some special measures to slow down the brute-force attacks etc. But as already noted, the human factor is still there. It does not matter what algorithm is being used, if you select an easy to guess password such as your phone number or your favourite football team. Or we don't care how long your password is, if vendor has left some kind of backdoor, or used the fixed (constant) key to encrypt your data, even if password verification itself is slow and complex. And for those passwords that are still hard to break, we have solutions such as our "Distributed Password Recovery" software that can use the power of thosands computers to do the job.

We have extremely good security analysts and reverse engineers in our team, and of course, we carefully optimise the code to use all advantages of modern CPUs, including multi-core and SMP systems.

What do you see your clients most worried about?


They keep their data secure (or you can call that "privacy") so nobody else will be able to break it (with or without our software), but at the sime time, need a solution for a bad day when the password will be lost or forgotten. Obviously, they cannot get both.

We also have a special category of customers such as forensics, government and law-enforcement agencies, and what they worry about is how to get the password "yesterday".

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