From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 28 08:12:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA17762 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 08:12:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from vinyl.quickweb.com (vinyl.quickweb.com [206.222.77.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA17757 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 08:12:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (mark@localhost) by vinyl.quickweb.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA19654; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 11:04:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 11:04:51 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Mayo To: Terry Lambert cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MSWord docs... In-Reply-To: <199703271713.KAA01589@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Nothing public. You can obtain documentation under NDA from > > > Microsoft, provided you agree not to implement anything useful > > > with the information (like a word processor). > > They may also have a patent on the encryption algorithm (a friend > of mine, while employed at Word Perfect, actually cracked their > encryption). In version 4.x, and 6.x the "encryption" was an XOR of the file with the given password :-) So if you had an image in your word document, with enough zeros in it, the password would be all over the place in the "encrypted" file :-) Quite rediculous. -Mark > > Regards, > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com RingZero Comp. http://vinyl.quickweb.com/mark ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GCS/O d- s+ a-- C++ UB+++$ P+ L- E--- W++ N+ K- w++(---) O- M- !V PS+ PE Y++ PGP+ t !5 X+ R- tv b++ DI+ D++ G+ e+(*) h--- r++ y+(+++) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Typically, I don't use JAVA -- I think that strong typing is for weak minds (and lazy compiler/interpreter writers)." -- Terry Lambert