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- From: wetmore@cs.ucdavis.edu (Brad,4480-A Chemistry Annex,2149,7540674,Levitt)
- Newsgroups: alt.security
- Subject: Re: Cracking Word Perfect's passwords
- Message-ID: <18993@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 09:11:34 GMT
- References: <dbarber.720940916@crash.cts.com>
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- In article 720940916@crash.cts.com, dbarber@crash.cts.com (David C. Barber) writes:
- >I've heard that at least one company has a special program to
- >crack Word Perfect's password locked/scrambled files. My question
- >is: Is this ability limited to just one company, or are there
- >several WP cracker programs running around?
-
- No, and yes.
-
- No, anyone can use them, yes there are several "running around." Check in wuarchive,
- I think in the directory is call wordperfect, but don't quote me. It might
- be called perfect or wp...
-
- If you have access to a WAIS server, you can look it up in the risks
-
- Brad
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