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staym@accessdata.com
Fri, 08 May 1998 14:17:57 -0600
> > AccessData is a firm that specializes in cryptanalysis and
> > data recovery. They have some very interesting, if basic,
> > password and encryption cracking utilities available for the retail
> > market, most of which rely on dictionary attacks.
Actually, most of them rely on really crappy proprietary encryption /
access-denial schemes. Access'97, for example, simply XOR's the
plaintext password with some known bytes at the beginning of the file.
Most of the others are about the same level of difficulty. Only Word &
Excel for office '97 and the PKZIP cracker use dictionaries.
-- Mike Stay Cryptographer / Programmer AccessData Corp. mailto:staym@accessdata.com
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:17:18 ADT