[TriLUG] OT: password cracking service for Word docs

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 16:39, Dan wrote:
> --On Friday, March 26, 2004 04:07:41 PM -0500 Jason Tower 
> <jason at cerient.net> wrote:
> 
> > yeah, it's called openoffice :)
> 
> 'splain please... will OpenOffice read in the password protected files? 
> I've not played with OO because, like Office, it seems to be way bloated to 
> me.

OpenOffice will not read password protected word documents at all.
Do give it a try for your general office needs, though, it feels a lot
less bloated in recent versions, like the one included in Fedora Core 1
or Mandrake 10.

AbiWord will open some types of password-protected Word docs... but it
will prompt for the password.  It needs this to decrypt.

I believe John Beimler has experience with this; if he doesn't see this
thread, you may want to ask him on IRC (nick jbeimler).

--Jeremy

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