password recovery

G

Guest

I had an old worksheet that I needed to unprotect, but forgot the password.
Through this forum, I found some code that was unable to unlock the sheet.
After running the code, a message box said, "one possible password is
"-----".

I've read that excel stores the password as a hash, so you can't recover the
actual password. My question is this:

How many different passwords can one hash represent? In other words, would
it be possible for me to generate a table with a bunch of "possible"
passwords that this hash could represent?
 
J

JE McGimpsey

Each of the 194K hashes could potentially represent an infinite number
of passwords. It would certainly be possible to generate a table of
hashes to passwords, but it wouldn't be complete...
 

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