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Alex.Strasheim@launchpad.unc.edu (Alex Strasheim) writes:
>In article <1992Dec11.192225.919@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu> butzerd@blanc.eng.ohio-state.edu (Dane C. Butzer) writes:
>>I have a friend who forgot his password to a WordPerfect file.  I recall
>>somebody posted a FTP site with a program that could defeat the
>>'encryption' used.  Could somebody please e-mail me the site & filename?

>>Failing that, does anyone have any info on the encryption scheme
>>WordPerfect uses (& I'll try to break it myself...)

>I can't remember the name of it, but I remember seeing a program that was
>floating around the net that could break files encrypted with WordPerfect.
>I'm pretty sure that the version that was available publicly was intended
>more as a demonstration of the weakness of wp's crypt algorithm rather
>than as a tool for breaking into files.  It was limited to files encrypted
>with passwords that were four characters or less in length.  I think that
>there was a more powerful version available for a fee, but I might be
>mistaken about that.

How about one for free?  There's some on several ftp sites (look for
wpcrack.zip) and if someone mails me I'll mail mine to them.
Guaranteed to crack almost any standard password in about 10 seconds -
once we get about 14 characters you start running out of information
to work with.

I also include information on the encryption scheme used (it's really,
really stupid).
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