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Passwords Confidentiality in Windows-based Client Applications

Passwords Confidentiality in Windows-based Client Applications

A password protected (.xls) file created in Microsoft Office can be opened with Open Office.

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"Generally speaking office encryption is easily breakable.
There are several programs available to compute a password that matches the hash and therefor opens the file. Even though the computed password and actual password may not match, the hash is the same."