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Re: How secure are passwords for *.MDB?

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From: Viatcheslav V. Vassiliev
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:32
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.mdw stores username/password pairs. .mdw sure will make security stronger
but I just did not tried to break this security, may be this could be done
quite easy.

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"Vladimir Stefanovic" <spam@not.needed> �������/�������� � ��������
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> > It you know how to break this password, this
> > takes < 1 sec. (+ time to press button and specify
> > .mdb file to break/extract password).
>
> I thought so - that's why I asked ;) Does adding MDW
> file make any changes to the method of grabbing the
> password, or the whole logic is still in MDB?
>
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> Best regards,
> Vladimir Stefanovic
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