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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Word Perfect "locked document encryption" is trivial to break
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Date: 30 Aug 90 16:27:20 GMT
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Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
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Oh, great! All those WP files that I encripted thinking they were safe
(even WPCorp said *they* coundn't decrypt them) are now easiy read by
anybody, especially when the decryption programs start appearing in
the marketplace.  Now I'll just have to use a separate program to do
the encrypting.

BTW, there has always been a problem when editing encrypted files with
the timed-backup option turned on. The backup files are not encrypted.
The fact that the file is deleted when WP exits normally doesn't matter
because there are plenty of unerase programs around.

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com
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