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- 1. Disclaimer
- =============
- This program may or may not do what you think it does. It may or may
- not do what its documentation (including this file) tells you it
- does. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! The author may not be held liable for any
- damage caused by running this program. Or any other damage, for that
- matter. Blablabla. ;)
-
- 2. Copyright
- ============
- This package was written and is copyright by Dmitry Sumin,
- <sumin@math.msu.su>, or for fido net members
- 2:5020/651.4@fidonet.org.
-
- Official home page is: http://www.math.msu.su/~sumin/msofpass.html
-
- 3. What is this?
- ================
- This package was intended for discovering "forgotten" passwords for
- files created with programs from the Microsoft Office.
-
- Since I don't have time to support any registered users, I have
- decided to release this program as *CardWare*. I don't remember who
- coined that term, but its meaning is simple:
-
- If you like the program, send me a postcard. Picture postcards from
- the area where you live are preferred. On the card you may write
- anything you like, e. g. how much you like the program, what a great
- person I am, or whatever comes to your mind. Be creative! :-)
-
- My snail mail address is:
-
- Dmitry Sumin
- Pivchenkova str. 1-1-55,
- 121108 Moscow
-
- Russia
-
- Phone +7 (095) 144-9986
-
- Thanks.
-
- 4. Requirements
- ===============
- * Windows 95, Windows NT 3.x or higher
- * MS Visual C 5.0 runtime DLL (msvcrt.dll)
-
- 5. Using msofpass
- =================
- Well, it's simple:
-
- MsOfPass <in-file-name>
-
- 6. Supported programs
- =====================
- Program is designed to find passwords in files created with
- following programs:
-
- Excel Word
- 5.0 7.0 6.0 7.0
- +-----+-----+-----+-----+
- English | X | X | X | X |
- Russian | X | X | X | X |
- French | X | X | X | X |
- Spanish | X | | X | |
- Norwegian | X | | X | |
- German | | X | | X |
- Portuguese | | X | | X |
- Dutch | | X | | X |
- Polish | | X | X | |
- Chinese | | | X | X |
- Italian | | | X | |
- Slovenian | | | X | |
- Finish | | | X | |
- Danish | | | | X |
- +-----+-----+-----+-----+
-
- 7. Frequently Asked Questions
- =============================
- Q: "When the version for Office 97 documents will be available?"
- A: Alpha version of a brute force cracker is ready. It's too slow
- to be released (1000 pwd/second), I'm now working on next
- version.
-
- Q: "When I run the program it says 'Working...failed'. What is that
- supposed to mean?"
- A: File is not password protected or program used is not in the
- list of supported programs. Check the list. If information
- is vital for you and file size is less than 512KB you can
- try to send it to me, and maybe I can help you.
-
- Q: "I can open file, but I can't change anything, or edit forms.
- Can I obtain protection passwords with this program?"
- A: No. This program is intended for recovering lost
- passwords required to _open_ documents, not to _change_ them.
- You could try ex_pass available at the home page.
-
- Q: "I found a bug, what should I do?"
- A: Please report it to me, but I don't guarantee that it will be
- fixed. I will try. ;)
-
- Q: "Where can I find the latest version of the program?"
- A: Check http://www.math.msu.su/~sumin/msofpass.html
-
- Q: "I'm running Win 3.1, Win32s, OS/2 or WABI, will your program run
- under those OSes?"
- A: No. Please read 'Requirements' section.
-
- Q: "Will your program recover passwords for MS Access files?"
- A: No.
-
- 8. Adding additional localized version
- ======================================
- To include an additional localized Word or Excel version in a future
- release I need two files. Both should contain following text
- (with no quotes):
-
- 'This is a test file for ms of pass. 0123456789ABCDEF.'
-
- Word files should contain only this text, Excel files should
- contain this text in A1 cell.
-
- First file should be with no password, and the second protected with
- password 'justatest' (with no quotes again).
-
- Please ZIP files before sending them to me. If you would like to see
- your name (and optionally e-mail) in documentation please send it
- along with files.
-
- 9. Future versions
- ==================
- For now I stopped development of 1.XXX version. Now I'm researching
- algorithms used by Office 97 to protect data. I'm not quite
- sure that Office 97 version will ever be released, but I really hope so.
-
- 10. Thanks
- =========
- First of all I want to thank people that inspired me and made my
- life more interesting: Tatiana Gulak, Nick Grachev, Nikita Kuznetsov,
- Eva Tulpan and Katja Semihatova. Thank you, guys.
-
- Thanks to all of you who sent me comments, bug reports and
- encrypted files.
-
- Special thanks to all who found 5 minutes to send me a post card.
- All postcards are really great!
-
- 10. History
- ===========
- 2.0.1.0 Dec 12 1997
- New patterns: Word 6.0 - Norwegian, Spanish & Polish;
- Excel 5.0 - Norwegian & Spanish;
- Excel 7.0 - Norwegian, Portuguese & French;
- Word 7.0 - Portuguese;
-
- New version scheme
-
- 1.998 Oct 15 1997
- Word 6.0/Finish pattern added.
-
- Word 7.0/Danish pattern added.
-
- 1.997 Oct 1 1997
- Word 6.0/7.0/Chinese pattern added.
-
- Word 6.0/Slovenian pattern added.
-
- Command line syntax was changed.
-
- 1.996 Sep 15 1997
- Excel/Word 7.0/German pattern added.
-
- 1.995 Sep 11 1997
- Word 6.0/French pattern added.
-
- 1.994 Sep 10 1997
- Excel 5.0/French pattern added.
-
- 1.993 Sep 9 1997
- Word 7.0/French pattern added.
-
- 1.992 Sep 3 1997
- Word&Excel 7.0/Dutch patterns added.
-
- 1.991 Aug 29 1997
- Word 6.0/Italian pattern added.
-
- In future versions MSOfPass will be compiled with
- Visual C++ 5.0.
-
- 1.99 Jun 24 1997
- Slightly changed Excel engine to deal with some strange versions
- of Excel.
-
- 1.98 Jun 1 1997
- Excel 7.0/Russian pattern changed.
-
- Excel engine changed. This should solve problem with Excel files,
- that had 'write reservation' password.
-
- Executable is now smaller (8KB). But who cares ;)
-
- 1.97 Apr 9 1997
- Excel 5.0/Russian pattern added, that has been accidentally left
- out in the 1.96 version.
-
- 1.96 Feb 24 1997
- First version that went into public
-
- With best regards,
- Dmitry Sumin
-