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Article #221Re: Lotus's worksheet password protection
From: John R. Levine
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1989 21:53
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1989 21:53
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Lotus's password protection is not supposed to be terribly sophisticated,
and I'm sure anyone who knows anything about cryptanalysis could break it
without a whole lot of trouble, particularly since the contents of worksheets
are quite structured, so the code-breaker has a good idea of what to look for.
There have been occasionaly rumors that there is a trap-door, but I am not
inclined to believe them. If someone desperately wants to know, I could
probably find out for sure.
--
John R. Levine, Segue Software, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 864 9650
johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us, {ima|lotus|spdcc}!esegue!johnl
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!spdcc!ima!esegue!johnl From: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Lotus's worksheet password protection Message-ID: <1989Oct13.215323.3265@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> Date: 13 Oct 89 21:53:23 GMT References: <1386@resource.Resource.COM> <8ZAvGiK00WB5MFOmtK@andrew.cmu.edu> Reply-To: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) Distribution: na Organization: Segue Software, Cambridge MA Lines: 12