[TriLUG] OT: password cracking service for Word docs

[Glenn Hennessee]

There are several programs/services out there that will try to recover the
password for word files. One that I found on a google search,
http://www.getsomesoft.com/Utilities/Password-Recovery/10758-Ultimate-ZIP-Cracker.html
will crack passwords up through 5 letters in length for free. If it's
longer than that you will need to pay for it. I have never used any of
these programs/services so I can't vouch for how well they work. But if
the document is that important....

glenn

On Sun, 28 Mar 2004, Timothy A. Chagnon wrote:

> On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 12:59, Greg Brown wrote:
> > I just tried a few things with Office 2003 with no success.
>
> From a slashdot story I remeber seeing about a year ago, Microsoft put
> DRM into Office 2k3.  I couldn't find the exact story, but this one's
> close:
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/13/1611244&mode=thread&tid=109
>
> I remember something about needing Win2k3 to authenticate the DRM
> against, which leads me to guess they're using some sort of PKI.
> Obviously they're feeling the heat from the OSS/FSF world and are trying
> to lock out things like OO.o.
>
> Anyway, my point is, your noble regex efforts may be entirely in vain if
> the document is using asymmetric keys.
>
> -Tim
> --
> Timothy A. Chagnon <tchagnon at nc.rr.com>
>

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