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- From: moselecw@elec.canterbury.ac.nz (moz [chris moseley])
- Subject: WordPerfect 5.1 `encryption'
- Message-ID: <C18JCC.u7@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>
- Keywords: Wordperfect, encryption, WP51
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- Organization: Electrical Engineering, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 03:07:24 GMT
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- I have a paper by H. Bergen and W. Caelli which details the file protection
- system used in WP version 5.0 and lower, and wrote the program last night.
- The paper has appeared in both s.crypt and c.o.m.apps and contains notes
- on the triviality of the code. Knowing nothing about cryptography I am
- unable to do much with the changed coding scheme in the new WP 5.1.
- But the encryption has changed so the methods given do not work.
-
- Does anyone have either the new encryption method or a program that can
- decrypt the new system?
-
-
- For those who have some idea of the 5.0 stuff here are the main changes
- I can see:
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- Byte 8 can be either 00 or 01, presumably a version indicator.
-
- Bytes 12 and 13 still provide a checksum, but byte 13 can be 00 for a
- non- one letter key, where before it couldn't. This gives a wrong solution
- using the old algorithm.
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- The key is case-sensitive, but the checksum does not change, instead the
- file length is basically doubled. Either case of key will decode the file.
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- Thanks you anyopne who can help
-
- MOZ
- moselecw@elec.canterbury.ac.nz
-