Excel password protected files: help!

Article View: comp.windows.ms

Article #7886

#7886

From: Peter L. Thomas, AE
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 1991 18:42

17 lines
1344 bytes

About four months ago I encrypted some sensitive Excel worksheets; well I just
came back to look something up in them, and my memory failed me!  Can anyone
give me a hand in retrieving these files?  A company called ADRS sells a
package to recover your passwords--for $185 plus shipping.  That's $200
dollars I don't have.  They'll also do a "one time" decryption for you for
$35. . .well, this starving student can't even manage that.  What I do have
is patience and programming skills; so even if your solution involves some
hacking around, I'm not afraid to try it out.

Anyone?  Anyone?

--Pete
-- 
Peter L. Thomas (Junior AE)
"Figures never lie, but liars always figure."
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
Internet: {gt5139c,ce202a2}@prism.gatech.edu

Technical Details

Message-ID: <19283@hydra.gatech.EDU>

Path:

arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!gatech!prism!ce202a2

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!gatech!prism!ce202a2
From: ce202a2@prism.gatech.EDU (Peter L. Thomas, AE)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Excel password protected files:  help!
Summary: Someone please help this poor fool who doesn't want to spend a million dollars retrieving his files.
Keywords: excel, password, help, encryption, decryption
Message-ID: <19283@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 7 Jan 91 18:42:37 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Lines: 17