RE: Password protected archived WP documents

[Stephen McDermott <Stephen -dot- McDermott -at- PREMERA -dot- com>]

It appears that I must stand corrected and publicly prostrate myself upon my
baseball bat.  I apologize, Jan, for being pessimistic.

(Nothing worse than sitting happily on first base after watching Ball 4 only
to have your manager come up and tell you that it was strike 3).

Steve

(Batting .500 this week... still better than Barry Bonds).

-----Original Message-----
From: Beth Friedman [mailto:bjf -at- wavefront -dot- com]
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 1:35 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Password protected archived WP documents


In our previous episode at 02:45 PM 3/14/02, Stephen McDermott wrote:
>Jan,
>
>I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you can't get there from here.
>
>Even if you had WP, it wouldn't help, as you don't have the password.  (If
>you do have the password, find a copy of WP or get a demo).

There are commercial password breakers for WordPerfect.  If she has that 
and a copy of WP, she should be set.

The encryption in both Word and WordPerfect is not particularly strong.

Beth

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