RE: Password

Yep,
This is pretty much what Ive heard about these MS Office apps. You might 
suggest to your colleague if he's going to be keeping files unused for so 
long that he save them unencrypted on removable media and stick them in the 
office safe.
If you need to encrypt anything use PGP. There are several versions out 
there, the latest of which have easy to use GUI's. Ive mostly used the early 
DOS version, 2.6.3, which encrypts plain text. I dont think it supports the 
formatting you get in word files - later versions may do this, though.


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>This vulnerability has been known for a long time.  AccessData, a Utah 
>firm,
>is one with a good reputation.
>
>Note that the vulnerabilities are not accidental.  It costs little if any
>more to have good encryption software, BUT the application vendors
>(WordPerfect, Word, etc.) don't want to deal with the complaints and 
>support
>calls they would get if they sold strong encryption & their customers lost
>passwords.  Therefore, they sell you only easy-to-break encryption.
>
>If you need really strong security, buy good encryption products and don't
>rely on the encryption features built into your word processor, etc.
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>Jerry Lawson
>http://www.netlawblog.com
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Stuart Levine [mailto:[email protected]]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 6:43 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [NetLawyers] Password
>
>One of the attorneys in this office password protected a computer folder
>several years ago and now wants to access teh folder, but has forgotten the
>password.  He asked me how to gain access.
>
>I did not know, but knew that the web knew.  I put in the words 
>"wordperfect
>lost password" on alltheweb.  I received 62,800 hits.  I did not go past 
>the
>first 20 hits, all of which were for commercial software that promised to
>recover the password, in most cases inexpensively.
>
>Now, I will assume that only 1/3 of the remedies actually work.  Does that
>trouble anyone on this list besides me?  What would prevent me or a
>disgruntled employee from buying the software and accessing all of a firm's
>sensitive material?  (While the cheap software that will remedy the problem
>only ties into WordPerfect, the same site offered software that would
>allegedly would crack Lotus, Quicken, Quickbooks, etc.)
>
>
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