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After discovering that Google Account information (login and password) are stored by Picasa2 (current version), we have decided to update the Google Password Recovery to version 1.07.07.07. The new upgraded version supports recovery of passwords stored by Picasa2.

We keep our promise - our recovery tools are probably the most sophisticated on the net - Google Talk Password Recovery is a good example of that. If any Google Account password is stored on your PC, Google Password Recovery will find & recover it!

Some details about the encryption method used by Picasa2 (as our systems programmer tells us): The password is encrypted/decrypted using a unique key through the RC1 encryption algorithm. The unique key is produced by making SHA1 hash of the Picasa Web Albums username.

One thing, which we thought was not the best practice from Google though - Picasa version information is not stored in the registry. Instead, it’s directly embedded into the executable.

Links:

• Download the new version of Google Password Recovery
• Google Password Recovery homepage

This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 at 10:20 am and is filed under Password Recovery, Google, Software News, Uncategorised. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.