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- From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
- Subject: Re: Help cracking a WordPerfect file...
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- References: <1992Dec11.192225.919@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu> <1992Dec11.200022.25865@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:45:15 GMT
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- Alex.Strasheim@launchpad.unc.edu (Alex Strasheim) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec11.192225.919@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu> butzerd@blanc.eng.ohio-state.edu (Dane C. Butzer) writes:
- >>I have a friend who forgot his password to a WordPerfect file. I recall
- >>somebody posted a FTP site with a program that could defeat the
- >>'encryption' used. Could somebody please e-mail me the site & filename?
-
- >>Failing that, does anyone have any info on the encryption scheme
- >>WordPerfect uses (& I'll try to break it myself...)
-
- >I can't remember the name of it, but I remember seeing a program that was
- >floating around the net that could break files encrypted with WordPerfect.
- >I'm pretty sure that the version that was available publicly was intended
- >more as a demonstration of the weakness of wp's crypt algorithm rather
- >than as a tool for breaking into files. It was limited to files encrypted
- >with passwords that were four characters or less in length. I think that
- >there was a more powerful version available for a fee, but I might be
- >mistaken about that.
-
- How about one for free? There's some on several ftp sites (look for
- wpcrack.zip) and if someone mails me I'll mail mine to them.
- Guaranteed to crack almost any standard password in about 10 seconds -
- once we get about 14 characters you start running out of information
- to work with.
-
- I also include information on the encryption scheme used (it's really,
- really stupid).
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