[ILUG] ms word encryption

From: Caolan McNamara (Caolan.McNamara at domain ul.ie)
Date: Mon 12 Apr 1999 - 16:54:48 IST


Currently i am interested in decrypting ms documents. Im
not trying to crack the password. If i have a password
im trying to find out what is the mechanism to decrypt
the word document. Anyone have any pointers ?

Word {8|97} is the particular format im talking about.

From some serious web searching i believe that the
encryption algorithm is rc4, of course i dont know
jack about that though. Was there someone from
baltimore on this list :-) ?

more details, samples etc at
http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/challenge/decryption.README

C.

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