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Re: Word Perfect 5.1 encrypted files

#925
From: Leonard Erickson
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 09:18
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waldman2@husc4.harvard.edu (Bruce Waldman) writes:

>Is there any possible remedy for someone (a
>student in my course) who encrypted a Word Perfect 5.1
>file and now has forgotten the password he used?

There's a utility available on some BBS's that lets you recover
the encrypted file. A coworker had a copy, I never got around to
getting a copy from him, but I know it worked.


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From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
Subject: Re: Word Perfect 5.1 encrypted files
Message-ID: <1992Apr15.091846.12145@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
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Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.
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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 09:18:46 GMT
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