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Protected designed to search for hidden password protected files on
local disks and across a network.
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1. Search of encrypted files is aimed, first of all, not to cracking,
but just the opposite – to providing information security of a user.
2. The user faces a problem of searching of encrypted files when he has
forgotten a file name, location and password, or when the file was
hidden in some way (renamed or nested).
3. There are two ways to search an encrypted file: manual search
through all files seemed suitable one by one, or using special
software. The second approach is much faster. Computer-aided search is
based on examination of the file contests whether there is special flag
(attribute) of an encrypted file.
4. In the case the file was renamed, for its search it's necessary to
analyze a file structure which differs for applications with different
formats.
5. In the case the file was hidden in another file, it’s reasonable
to use special software which allows to detect stenography, or analyses
some indirect signs of nesting presence in the file (it's very
complicated).
6. If the password is forgotten or lost it may be recovered only using
special software which is developed for different applications, has
optimized search time and can deal with different information security
levels, if necessary.
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