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                    WPcrak Password Retrieval Software
                         Version 1.0

1       Copyright Notice: (C) Copyright by John E. Kuslich 1993
                     All Rights Reserved

     This is copyrighted software.  You may not make or distribute
copies of this software or any part of this software (including but
not limited to electronic copies) except as noted in the following
license agreement:

     License Agreement:

     You may freely make and distribute as many as copies of the
shareware version of WPcrak as you desire.  You must, however,
distribute/copy the entire shareware package including this file
each time you do so.  You must not make any alterations or
deletions to this software or the supporting documentation.  You
must not change the filename of WPcrak shareware package as it is
distributed/copied to various software archive distribution
entities such as Internet or Compuserve.   You must not use WPcrak
for longer than ten days unless you register your copy and pay the
required fee.

PLEASE COPY AND FREELY DISTRIBUTE THE WPCRAK1.ZIP FILE.

2       Liability:

     The author assumes no liability whatsoever no matter what
happens under any conceivable circumstance no matter what, period.
If you don't like this condition, don't use the software. It's that
simple.  The author assumes no responsibility for any damages
resulting from the use or misuse of this software.

3       Registration:

     You must register this software if you use it for longer than
ten(10) days. When you register you will receive a full featured
version of WPcrak by mail on a 3 1/2 inch floppy. Be sure to
include you name and address - I'm not psychic.  Future versions
may find passwords for other programs as well as for Word Perfect
(TM).

4       Program Capabilities:

     a)  Word Perfect (TM) Password protection:

     The Word Perfect (TM) program has an option allowing password
protection for files.  This password protection supposedly
disallows reading or alteration (through the Word Perfect (TM)
program) of files by anyone not in possession of the "password"
used to protect the file.

     This protection happens to be very weak and is easily broken.
It relies on an encryption technique which can be successfully
attacked, especially if one is in possession of a
"non-password-protected" file of arbitrary contents but which uses
the same printerand base font setup.

     Certain information associated with printer and base font is
known or can be known by simply creating a Word Perfect (TM) file
and setting up for the particular printer and base font.  This
information, together with knowledge of the encryption algorithm,
(which is easily discovered by examining a known file encrypted
with a given password) is used by the WPcrak program to discover
the file password.

     WPcrak uses this technique to quickly and easily discover Word
Perfect (TM) file passwords.


     b)  Legitimate Uses

     Nobody  likes the idea of snooping on private information
belonging to others, but there are a number of legitimate uses for
a program such as WPcrak.  These uses justify having a copy and
using it to overcome password difficulties.

          1)  Bad Memory (yours) ---      Say you have a lot of
private files that you have been password protecting and, as time
goes by, you forget what passwords you used to protect certain
data.  Without WPcrak you are out of luck!  Chances are, if you
have gone to all  the trouble of protecting unauthorized access to
files, the data they contain is extremely valuable to you.  Before
WPcrak you were lost!  With WPcrak, you can easily recover those
files! (Perhaps someone else can also and you should be considering
a stronger encryption algorithm for you private files)

          2)  Malicious Behavior (theirs)  ---     Say one of your
trusted and key employees gets a wild hair and decides life in the
Bahamas (at your expense) would be a good idea.  He/she password
protects some really important business data and attempts to extort
money or a promotion in exchange for your business data.  Now you
have a choice of going out of business or writing some checks. With
WPcrak you call the cops, document the extortion attempt, and
recover you data. (Or you don't call the cops, document the
extortion attempt, recover your data and start receiving some
checks yourself!!!!) It's up to you.  WPcrak puts you in control.


          3) Shark Attack ---  You are a lawyer and through
discovery proceedings in a lawsuit,  the judge grants you access to
data files relevant to your case.  These files are in the
possession of your opponent.  Your worthy opponent dutifully gives
you the required data except that, all of a sudden, his/her memory
goes blanker than Ronald Regan's brain on Halcion. He/she cannot
remember a single solitary character of the passwords used to
protect the data.  You out of luck unless you have WPcrak!

          4) Cops and Robbers ---   You are a law enforcement
officer investigating some evil doings by your local assemblyman.
You subpoena his computer and files,  but to your chagrin, they are
password protected!  You are out of luck unless you have WPcrak!
With WPcrak, you look at the files which lead you to information
your target has no idea you know about.  You are a hero and the bad
guy goes to the slammer.

          5) Illigitimus Non Carborundum* ---  You suspect your
teenage daughter of illicit activity with Andrew Dice Clay and she
writes password protected letters to him all the time.  Or your 10
year old son is writing password protected letters to Michael
Jackson.  What does a good parent do? I'll tell you what a good
parent does. He/she gets a copy of WPcrak and does some snooping.
Hopefully you don't discover that the little tyke is running a drug
ring on the side!

          6) Paradise Lost  --- You suspect your husband/wife of
cheating and writing password protected love letters to
Joesephine/Joe  Husbandstealer/Wifestealer. What do you do?  I'll
tell you what you do. You divorce the ^%@%&#% and collect the
insurance.  Get a life! Forget WPcrak!

5       Program Usage Instructions

WPcrak RUNS ONLY UNDER MICROSOFT WINDOWS!!! IF YOU DO NOT HAVE
WINDOWS INSTALLED ON YOUR COMPUTER YOU CANNOT RUN WPcrak!

NOTA BENE:  YOU MUST COPY THE VISUAL BASIC RUN TIME LIBRARY
"VBRUN300.DLL" TO YOUR \WINDOWS\SYSTEM DIRECTORY BEFORE RUNNING
WPcrak.  (This library is in the public domain and available from
thousands of BBS's, Compuserve, Internet anonymous FTP sites,
etc.).

     a)      Installation

          1) Unzip the WPcrak.zip file to any working directory
(suggest WPcrak).  Make sure vbrun300.dll is resident in the
windows/system directory.

          2) Select FILE from the Windows Program Manager.


          3) Select RUN under the FILE window.

          4) Type "path\setup" where path is the path to the
working directory containing the unzipped WPcrak files.  The setup
program will then use standard Windows tools and install WPcrak
in its own program group and the required DLL's to the
windows\system directory.  If you would rather install WPcrak in
some other group, just drag the Icon to that group, drop it and
delete the WPcrak program group.
          5) You may then delete all the *.xx_ files (compressed
files) from the working directory.  Don't delete any other files or
when you click on the WPcrak Icon, you will get nada.
     b)      Using WPcrak

          1) Starting Up ---  Double click on the program Icon and
wait a few seconds for the program to load.  A dialogue box will
appear telling you to select the "FILE'  item from the menu bar in
the upper left hand corner of the WPcrak window.  If this detailed
level of direction is bothersome, just select
Suppress_Help_Messages from the FILE menu and this feature will
mercifully cease to exist.  The flashing red arrow will continue to
suggest file selection as appropriate however.  These program
operational features were added afte