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About KeychainRecovery

KeychainRecovery is a free tool to recover the lost password of a .keychain file of a Mac operating system. Most of the applications store the Login passwords and critical information to prevent hassale of entering the password everytime by the user. Often these applications use their own proprietary encryption mechanism to store the credentials. But on Mac many applications use the keychain files for storing the username,passwords and sometime even other critical data.

Most often the users of Mac forget the master password of these keychain files, especially the "login.keychain". KeychainRecovery helps these users to retrieve the lost master password of the keychain file.

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Features of KeychainRecovery

KeychainRecovery comes with a user interface for helping the user enter the path to the keychain file.

By default KeychainRecovery uses system dictionary of Mac for retrieving the password.

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Installing KeychainRecovery

• Download the KeychainRecoveryInstaller.dmg
• Open that dmg file.
• Click on the file KeychainRecovery.pkg
• The installation wizard opens.
• Choose the appropriate location to install. By default it installs in the Applications folder.

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Using KeychainRecovery

KeychainRecovery is easy to use with its simple GUI interface even for beginners.

Here are the brief usage details,

• Run the KeychainRecovery tool from its installed location. By default it is installed in the Applications folder. The filename is "KeychainRecovery.app"
• Enter the path to the kaychain file whose password is lost.
• Enter the path to the dictionary file which contains the words with which the master password is to be compared. By default KeychainRecovery uses the system word list at "/usr/share/dict/words".
• Finally click on Start to begin the recovery process.

During recovery operation, you will see number of words tried and the last word compared in the no. of tries field. Once the master password is retrieved it is shown in the Keychain Password field.

Screenshots of KeychainRecovery

Here is the screenshot of KeychainRecovery

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Release History

Version 1.0 :  24th Nov 2010

First public release of KeychainRecovery Tool

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Disclaimer

KeychainRecovery is designed for good purpose to help users to recover the lost Facebook account password. Like any tool its use either good or bad, depends upon the user who uses it. However author or the website owners are not responsible for any damage caused due to misuse of this tool.

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Download KeychainRecovery

License: Freeware

Platform: Mac OS