If you think the password protection on your MS Word file is keeping it safe from prying eyes, you're wrong. The time it takes to crack password-protected Microsoft Office files has tumbled from a 25-day average to a matter of seconds, thanks to a decades-old code-cracking technique that until recently was not viable.
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Code cracking is the new pot of gold
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It's amazing that 40-bit encryption is so widely used, yet is so unsafe.
To supplement the original article, here's another blog regarding this story, which puts the issue in layman's terms.
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