[comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d] UNCRYPT.ZIP - How to remove password protection from WP file

raymond@MATH.BERKELEY.EDU (Raymond Chen) (03/30/91)

I have uploaded to SIMTEL20:

pd1:<msdos.wordperf>
UNCRYPT.ZIP     How to remove password protection from WP file

The question of removing password protection resurfaces periodically.

WPCorp has acknowledged that their encryption scheme is not robust
and even conceded that people have written program to decrypt WP
files.

This archive contains the text of an article published in the journal
`Cryptologia' which discusses the simplicity of the encryption scheme
and gives step-by-step instructions on how one could undo the
encryption.

Raymond Chen
raymond@math.berkeley.edu