On 5/29/06, Ricardo Frydman Eureka! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A riesgo de pecar de ingenuo e ignorante (puedo jactarme de haber usado

Ignorante, no. Ingenuo, si.
Estuve buscando y encontre este comentario que creo que responde tus dudas:

"Word does not use RC4 with a 128-bit key; it uses RC4 with a 40-bit
key which is derived from a 128-bit hash (MD5, if I remember
correctly) of the user-provided password. (Since version 97, that is.
Earlier versions of Word used a "toy" cipher - a trivial Vigenere
variant.)

Given the speed of computers nowadays, and given that RC4 is a
relatively fast cipher, a 40-bit-long key for it is ridiculously
insecure anyway - no matter how implemented.

Even if the flaw you're discussing here didn't exist, one could still
brute-force the cipher in a few days on a reasonably fast PC (much
faster if a cluster of PCs is used). There are even cracking programs
for Word documents floating around that do just that. They don't
recover the password; they just exhaust the full (relatively small)
40-bit keyspace and decrypt the document."



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