Re: Word doc Security?

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Tony Jollans <My forename at my surname dot com> wrote:
I don't propose to go into any kind of detail in a public forum but, as I'm
sure both Karl and Jonathan know, it is not necessary to crack the actual
password at all to be able to access VBA projects.

Exactly. It's a damned crime, really. I've had folks drop their jaw when I showed
them how easy it was to get into their code. We'd be discussing how to fix
something, I'd have an "encrypted" copy "to see the behavior", they'd want me to
sign an NDA to see the source... I'd tell 'em what routine needed to be patched up
and how. "Huh, wha...the...f...?" Heh... Sad. Though, that revelation often gets
me a job exposing the valued algorithms from a VB6 DLL.



"Karl E. Peterson" <karl@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Jonathan West <jwest@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
The VBA project password has a maximum of 32 characters - again, anything
longer is ignored.

And, even at that, it's only stored as a 12-character hash. One _so_
lame, that only 194,560 possibilities exist. How long does a modern
computer take to run through that many loops? :-(
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