Documentation for PSafeCracker.exe

This program is used to crack the password used
with Counterpane's Password Safe program.  That
program uses strong cryptography, so the only way
to break it is to try candidate passwords from a
big dictionary.

This program is invoked with no arguments.  It is
a console application (DOS window) that will ask for
the name of the Password Safe data file (the file
that ends in .dat), and for the name of a dictionary
file.  The dictionary contains one word per line
and each word will be tested to see if it can unlock
the data file.

The program has not been optimized for performance
and it has only been tested on Win98 SE using the
cygwin development tools and gcc.  It requires the
file CYGWIN1.DLL to be installed in the windows
system directory or in the same directory as the
executable.
