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Re: Off Topic - Excel Password Recovery



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Daniel Martinez wrote:
>To carry out a full, unabridged, "dictionary attack" using all permutations
>with a 1400 (266 DDR) MHz Athlon would take approx. 45 minutes.  You don't

So far my brute force cracks have taken no more than 30 sec on a 600 MHz
pentium III, using the add-in at
http://www.straxx.com/excel/password.html

I've tested it on Excel 2000 files, but no higher.  The author claims it
works for Excel XP too.

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