[TriLUG] OT: password cracking service for Word docs

Chris Knowles chrisk at trilug.org
Fri Mar 26 21:17:26 EST 2004


OK, I tried it with word, and it no worky.  OO pops up and says that it
can't open protected documents.  Now, it will work if all they've done
is protect against changes, but not if they've protected the entire
document.

CJK

On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 17:05, Jason Tower wrote:
> i can't speak for word, but a client recently sent me a XLS file that had
> passwd-protected cells/columns (they had forgotten the passwd and wanted
> to know if i could "fix" it).  OO calc had no trouble with it, saved it as
> a new file and all was right with the world.  i did have to do a
> "unprotect sheet" or something like that first, only took a second.
> 
> jason
> 
> > 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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