Password Protected Word Document

[Kent Smith]

I am running a brute force password crack application on a
Word document. The program has been running all night. Is
there a simpler way to open a password protected file when
the user has forgotten the password?

 

[Graham Mayor]

If the password protects against opening the document then no. The
encryption is pretty good. That software could take weeks if the password is
good.

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[Kent Smith]

It took 14 hours for the software to guess the password.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Not too bad then - if it was a correct guess - and assuming that you will
be changing this password what was it, so we can judge how good it was?
Which software utility did you use to identify it?

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Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word
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