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Passware Kit 2024 v4 Now Available

October 10, 2024 Product Update

What’s new in Passware Kit 2024 v4:

  • Decryption of ThinkPad devices protected by BitLocker with TPM
  • Support for macOS 15 Sequoia
  • Public GPU and CPU benchmarks
  • GPU-accelerated password recovery for Hancom Office
  • GPU-accelerated password recovery for APFS hashes
  • Display of password hints during encryption detection and decryption
  • Usability improvements

What’s New Video

For your convenience, we have included a video of all the latest features of Passware Kit 2024 v4. Take a look!

The Device Decryption Add-on has been enhanced with a new decryption option for BitLocker-encrypted Lenovo ThinkPads with TPM 2.0. This tool acquires and displays the Volume Master Key, allowing users to decrypt the volume and retrieve the Recovery key.

Passware Kit 2024 v4 is fully compatible with the latest macOS Sequoia, offering T2 unlock, APFS decryption, Keychain password recovery, and other features. It also recovers passwords for Hancom Office files, including Hanword, Hancell, and Hanshow.

The Passware website now features a new Hardware Benchmark page that compares GPU and CPU performance, helping users choose the most cost-effective hardware for password recovery. We extend our thanks to our customers for using the Hardware Benchmark option in Passware Kit and sharing their performance data, which enabled us to compile these valuable statistics!

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Decryption of ThinkPad devices protected by BitLocker with TPM

The Device Decryption Add-on has been enhanced with a new decryption option for BitLocker-encrypted Lenovo ThinkPads with TPM 2.0.

This tool acquires and displays the Volume Master Key, allowing users to decrypt the volume and retrieve the Recovery key.

Support for macOS 15 Sequoia

Passware Kit 2024 v4 fully supports the newly-released macOS 15 Sequoia, offering T2 unlock, APFS decryption, password recovery for Keychain and iWork files, and other features.

Public GPU and CPU benchmarks

The Passware website now features a new Hardware Benchmark page that compares GPU and CPU performance, offers Filter and Sort options, and helps users select the most cost-effective hardware for password recovery.

A big thank you to our customers for using the Hardware Benchmark option in Passware Kit and sharing their performance data, which enabled us to compile these valuable statistics!

GPU-accelerated password recovery for Hancom Office

Passware Kit 2024 v4 recovers passwords for the Hancom Office Suite, including Hanword, Hancell, and Hanshow files. The recovery speed for Hanword files can reach up to 4M passwords per second on an AMD Ryzen 9 CPU. GPU acceleration is supported for Hancell and Hanshow files, achieving speeds of up to 350,000 passwords per second on an NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti for version 2010.

GPU-accelerated password recovery for APFS hashes

APFS decryption has been enhanced to support APFS hash files extracted by third-party tools like John the Ripper. Save the hash as a text file or use a hashcat file to begin password recovery using Passware Kit. The recovery process is the same as for BitLocker hashes.

Display of password hints during encryption detection and decryption

Passware Kit 2024 v4 features an additional “Hint” column in its interface, displaying password hints for various file types during encryption scanning and batch password recovery processes. These hints can be useful for adjusting the settings to improve decryption efficiency.

Password hints are displayed for: Apple Notes and iWork files, macOS and FileVault2 accounts, APFS disk images, Western Digital digest files, and SanDisk vaults.

Usability improvements

Passware Kit has improved batch password recovery by enhancing the usability of the Timeout option and allowing CSV report saving when files are skipped. The attack editor has also been streamlined with automated scrolling and other usability features.


See changelog for the complete list of features

NEW: Passware Kit Ultimate – Air-Gapped Edition

Passware Kit Ultimate – Air Gapped Edition allows investigators to access data from locked mobile devices, computers, encrypted disks, and files – all with a single license, even in environments without Internet access!*

Passware Kit Ultimate – Air-Gapped Edition

Passware Kit Ultimate includes Passware Kit Forensic, Passware Kit Mobile, Device Decryption Add-on, 10 Agents for distributed computing, and Passware Certified Examiner Online Training.

Key capabilities include:

  • Password recovery for over 370 file types
  • Recovery of passcodes for over 850 mobile devices
  • Full disk decryption
  • Decryption of Macs with Apple T2 Security Chip
  • Decryption of WD My Passport HDD
  • Decryption of Lenovo ThinkPad with BitLocker TPM
  • Live memory analysis
  • Hardware acceleration on GPU
  • Distributed password recovery with 10 Agents for Windows, Linux, Amazon Cloud, and Microsoft Azure

* Additional information about the Air-Gapped Edition is available upon request.