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Help! Office docs password protected!
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Join Date: Nov 1999
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While living in a house full of people last year, I got into the habit of password protecting all of my word docs.
Unfortunately, now that I am living alone, I need to access a copy of my resume that is password protected and can't, for the life of me, remember the password to open the doc.
Can someone please provide a workaround so I can access the data contained in my locked word docs?
It is a microsoft product, so I assume there is some relatively easy way to bypass the password protection?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks to all in advance for their responses ans suggestions.
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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When you ask Word to save a document with a "password to read", Word prompts you to re-enter the password, with the text: "Caution: If you lose or forget the password, it cannot be recovered. It is advisable to keep a list of passwords and their corresponding document names in a safe place."
Honestly, what would be the point to encrypt a document if anyone who knew some trick could read it?
Luckily for you, the encryption Microsoft used sucks (which is one reason I use OS X AES-128 encrtypted disk images for sensitive documents.) If you type "crack microsoft word password" into Google, you'll find a number of services and applications for cracking them. Several have free trial downloads. Unluckily, none of these run on a Mac (though they can crack Mac Word documents), so you'll need a PC (or Virtual PC) to use the program.
These work by trial attacks, so the process can take some time.
And you may want to avoid using Panther's file vault.
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Last edited by car1son; Dec 6, 2003 at 08:02 PM.
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Can anyone else provide me with some options here? There must be some way to open teh file with a text viewer like BBEdit and view the password itself? C'mon gang, I could really use some help here!
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That would be a very dumb protection had it tha password stored in the document itself.
Maybe if GUI scripting works with Word you could try a brute force attack using AppleScript.
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Nasrudin sat on a river bank when someone shouted to him from the opposite side: "Hey! how do I get across?" "You are across!" Nasrudin shouted back.
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I agree. It would be dumb to store password in the doc itself, but hey, this IS a microsoft product we are talking about. There MUST be some simple way to retreive the password, right? right?
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My kingdom for a password....
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If you want you can send me the document and I'll try to get you the password.
[email protected]
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