22 Aug
2005
22 Aug
'05
16:47
James Wright wrote:
Last I heard, MS Word's 'protection' consisted of cycling XOR, each octet of the file XORd with an octet of (maybe a trivially-encrypted version of) the password in turn. I'm told a password can easily be 'recovered' by looking for blocks of data that would be all 0x00 in an unencrypted MS Word file.
O, this explains why there are so many MS Word password cracking tools out there. Does it also explain why there are also many .zip password cracking tools? -- Shriramana Sharma http://samvit.org (o- Penguin #395953 //\ running on ancient Indian wisdom V_/_ and modern computing efficiency