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- From: ALSOBROOK@biomed.med.yale.edu (John Alsobrook)
- Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives
- Subject: Re: Word Perfect Password Problem
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.144228.15083@news.yale.edu>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 14:42:28 GMT
- References: <28JUL199211122353@watson.bms.com> <kko.712349527@sfu.ca>
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- In-Reply-To: kko@fraser.sfu.ca's message of Tue, 28 Jul 1992 18:52:07 GMT
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- In <kko.712349527@sfu.ca> kko@fraser.sfu.ca writes:
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- > hutchinson@watson.bms.com (ROBERT HUTCHINSON) writes:
- >
- > > 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
- ... cool stuff deleted ...
- > >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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- If memory serves these programs (I have one called WPCRACK) only work
- with WP 5.0 -->, and not with WP 4.X.
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