bryan@resource.Resource.COM (Bryan Beck) (10/11/89)
I just recently discovered that you can password protect worksheets in Lotus. Does anyone know how to load a worksheet that is password protected when you do not know the password?? Thanks, Bryan -- Bryan M. Beck Resource Systems UUCP: osu-cis!resource!bryan Suite 390 2545 Farmers Driv INTERNET: bryan@resource.com Columbus, Ohio 43235 VOICE: (614) 764-7800 FAX: (614) 764-7850
mg32+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Ginsberg) (10/12/89)
Um... Think about it... if you could load a file that was password protected, it wouldn't be a good protection scheme... I don't think anyone out there will be able to tell you how to break Lotus' protection scheme, and if they could, I would hope they wouldn't so those of us who use this on networks and on easily accessable machines can feel (somewhat) safe in leaving protected files lying around... --Michael Ginsberg, Computer Operations Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ARPA: mg32+@andrew.cmu.edu |Electrocution, n: BITNET:mg32%andrew@cmccvb | Burning at the stake with UUCP: ...!harvard!andrew.cmu.edu!mg32+ | all the modern improvements. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. Yes is the answer.
johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) (10/14/89)
Lotus's password protection is not supposed to be terribly sophisticated,
and I'm sure anyone who knows anything about cryptanalysis could break it
without a whole lot of trouble, particularly since the contents of worksheets
are quite structured, so the code-breaker has a good idea of what to look for.
There have been occasionaly rumors that there is a trap-door, but I am not
inclined to believe them. If someone desperately wants to know, I could
probably find out for sure.
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