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- From: kko@fraser.sfu.ca (Samuel Ko)
- Subject: Re: Word Perfect Password Problem
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <28JUL199211122353@watson.bms.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 18:52:07 GMT
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- hutchinson@watson.bms.com (ROBERT HUTCHINSON) writes:
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- > The other day I tried to retrieve a document I have from about 2-3 years
- >ago. Being security minded I had password protected it. Of course by now you
- >know where this is leading, I can't remember the password! This would not be
- >so bad if it was one document, but I checked all of my documents from that
- >time frame (about 50 of them) and they all were also locked. I have an old
- >program called TRYALL4.EXE which can guess passwords up to 4 characters long.
- >Of course, mine were longer. I have tried every password I can remember with
- >no luck at all. Is there any program which can help me? If it could just
- >give me the first few letters of the password I could most likely identify it.
- >Has anyone else had this problem? If so what did you do? Can anyone help?
- >Thanks.
-
- This is almost an FAQ ... you can get wppass2.zip from /pc/util at
- garbo.uwasa.fi ... that one is, in my opinion, the best password
- decryption utility around ...
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- --
- Samuel Ko (kko@sfu.ca)
- Expert in DOS sharewares / freewares ...
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