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- Path: sparky!uunet!ulowell!m2c!crackers!transfer!ellisun.sw.stratus.com!cme
- From: cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: Wordperfect file-locking (faq?)
- Keywords: WordPerfect, encryption
- Message-ID: <6140@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 15:30:51 GMT
- References: <adamsd.715442992@crash>
- Sender: usenet@transfer.stratus.com
- Organization: Stratus Computer, Software Engineering
- Lines: 18
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- In article <adamsd.715442992@crash> adamsd@crash.cts.com (Adams Douglas) writes:
- >[...] Wordperfect 5.1 is easily broken.
-
- Yup.
-
- > Is this something that can be fixed or guarded against
- >(without actually doing something outside the program)?
-
- Nope -- not without massive re-code.
-
- >Why is it so easily crackable? Were they just lazy, or what?
-
- If not lazy, they were like other beginners in crypto. Everybody seems to
- go through the same learning curve. At each stage, you're convinced that
- your algorithm is so complex no one will be able to crack it. Once someone
- does, it's back to the drawing board. This is why it's strongly
- recommended that a person break several cryptosystems before attempting to
- design one of his/her own.
-