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- From: adamsd@crash.cts.com (Adams Douglas)
- Subject: Wordperfect file-locking (faq?)
- Date: 2 Sep 92 14:09:52 GMT
- Message-ID: <adamsd.715442992@crash>
- Keywords: WordPerfect, encryption
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- It's my understanding that the file-locking algorithm in Wordperfect 5.1
- is easily broken. Is this something that can be fixed or guarded against
- (without actually doing something outside the program)? Why is it so
- easily crackable? Were they just lazy, or what?
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- Sorry if this is a FAQ. Just email replies to me to save eye-time for others.
-
- And, yes, although I'm curious how one _does_ crack it, I'm more interested
- in how to fix it - if it can be.
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