On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:27, Tim <[email protected]> wrote:
> > In my grad school crypto class, we cracked the Excel hashes used to > enforce this exact type of protection (though I don't know if it is > the same for .doc files). I reversed the weak hash using pen and > paper, so not only is the protection pointless since you can just > remove the hash from the file header, but you can also figure out the > password used to protect the document. > MS Office was never known for strong protection. Write-protection could be eliminated by saving the doc as RTF. Read-protection went the same way, but one had to know the key first. there should > be a number of .doc file password crackers out there you could use. > Yep, a slew of them. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
