[42021] in Cypherpunks
Microsoft "Encrypted" Documents Hack FYI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Graves)
Mon Oct 23 02:05:24 1995
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 22:00:58 -0800
From: llurch@networking.stanford.edu (Rich Graves)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com, hackmsoft@c2.org, \win95netbugs@lists.Stanford.EDU,
llurch@Networking.Stanford.EDU
I would provide the hack itself, but I'm on a Mac that lacks a proper
Base64 handler at the moment. For people who only know how to use
Netscape, the URL is news:465l8h$6sa@oznet03.ozemail.com.au.
-rich
From: lyal collins <lyalc@ozemail.com.au>
Newsgroups:
alt.security,comp.os.ms-windows.apps.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc
Subject: Re: More Microsoft Security Bugs
Date: 19 Oct 1995 13:53:21 GMT
Organization: not very, at the moment
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Further to word document password protection, the attached offer a simple
way to recover text in such files with this "protection".
The source is included - at least one shwareare developer has taken up
on this technique and releases a VB based version.
cheers, lyal
-rich graves, llurch@networking.stanford.edu
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