= Contents =

  Introduction
  Requirements
  Known bugs and limitations
  Technical support
  Registration
  Copyright and license
  Where to get the latest version


= Introduction =

Advanced Office Key Recovery, or AOKR for short, is a program to decrypt Word and Excel 97/2000 files that have file open protection set, as well as Word and Excel XP files with default (Office 97/2000 compatible) encryption -- guaranteed, regardless the password length and complexity. This is being done by trying all possible encryption keys (instead of brute-force and dictionary attacks) and takes only about two weeks on single Pentium III/1000 PC (or just four-five days or faster dual-CPU systems).


= Requirements =

- Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 or Windows XP
- about 400 kilobytes of free space on hard disk

Note: to use Professinal or Enterprise Edition of AOKR on a system with two or more CPUs, you should have Windows NT, Windows 2000 or Windows XP.


= Known bugs and limitations =

The program does not work with the following files:

- Microsoft Word/Excel 95 or older;
- Microsoft Word/Excel 97/2000 with French regional settings;
- Microsoft Word/Excel 97/2000/XP with any passwords other than "open" ones;
- Microsoft Word/Excel XP with new CSP protection.

All such files are supported by Advanced Office XP Password Recovery (AOXPPR) which is available at:

http://www.elcomsoft.com/aoxppr.html

On Office 97/2000 files with 'open' password, however, AOXPPR can run only brute-force and dictionary attacks, but they'll fail is password is long enough and well selected.


= Technical support =

For technical support, please contact us at support@elcomsoft.com.


= Registration

Unregistered (trial) version of AOKR uses only one CPU (regardless the number of CPUs available in the system), and doesn't actually decrypt the documents (though show the encryption key when it is found).

Please note that your registration will be valid for all future versions of AOKR -- it means, that they will be free for you.


= Copyright and license =

See "license.txt" file.


= Where to get the latest version =

The latest version of AOKR is always available from our web page at http://www.elcomsoft.com/aokr.html.

Other password recovery products (for ZIP, RAR, ARJ and ACE archives, all versions of Microsoft Office, Microsoft Money, Microsoft Backup, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Mail and Schedule+, VBA, Lotus Organizer, Lotus WordPro, Lotus 1-2-3, Lotus Approach, Borland/Corel Paradox, WordPerfect, QuattroPro, Adobe Acrobat PDF, Intuit Quicken and QuickBooks, Mirabilis/AOL ICQ and other instant messengers, email clients) are available from our server at http://www.elcomsoft.com/prs.html.

If you'd like to receive notifications about new releases of AOKR, please subscribe to our Password Recovery Software mailing list; subscription information is available at http://maillist.elcomsoft.com/.
