Hans du Plooy wrote:
I have tried quite a number - they fail even under Crossover Office. Besides, the only really powerful machine I have at my disposal doesn't have X...
Thanks --
Kind regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com
I did a quick google, and did not find what you are looking for. It may be worth trying a more generic brute-force password cracker, like John the Ripper, but I do not know if it can be used for this particular purpose. You may be able to find the password yourself, this was posted on http://zgp.org/pipermail/linux-elitists/2003-January/005271.html: 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. I hope that this helps a little. James W