Word password recover in linux?
Hi guys, The subject says it all. Do you know of any password recovery programs for MS Word files that run on linux? Thanks Hans
On 8/20/05, Hans du Plooy
The subject says it all. Do you know of any password recovery programs for MS Word files that run on linux?
Why don't you just run one of those innumerable packages available out there for this purpose under Wine?
Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Why don't you just run one of those innumerable packages available out there for this purpose under Wine?
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
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
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
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