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Just a minor release to fix some compiler warnings.
The project is still in maintenance mode so issues mostly concern compiler-warnings, pdf-parser errors and better error-handling.

Another boring release with nothing really new to report.
The project is still in maintenance mode so issues mostly concern compiler-warnings, pdf-parser errors and better error-handling.

Yet another release. Nothing really interesting except for fixes for parsing certain pdfs.
If you get "Error: Could not extract encryption information" from a pdf that is password-protected, you might want to try this out.

Also fixes a few odd issues that should never happen in real life, but does come up when fuzzy-testing (like AFL) saved state files.

Small updates to the pdfparser to fix a issue with pdfs where the encryption object could not be detected.
If you had this particular problem, please try with this version.

pdfcrack 0.17 was just released with a few small fixes. Still no support for all the wanted features or the latest PDF format but please try with this version if you have problems with a pdf.

First release of pdfcrack - a command line Password Recovery tool for PDF-files.

This first release is somewhat hackish but should support both owner and user-passwords with the Standard Security Handler, revision 2 and 3.

Supported techniques are wordlists and bruteforce by charset.

The tool supports autosaving states for bruteforce when interrupted and optimized attack of owner-passwords when user-password is known.... read more