John McGhie, Microsoft MVP (Mac Word), Consultant Technical Writer. I have not heard anyone (other than the advertisers) claim that any password cracker will get a complex password from the current format.
A free utility that adds a stunning Mac dock to your Windows desktop. docx, but generally have severe 'restrictions' suchĪs only being able to retrieve passwords no longer than 5 characters provided they are the only program running for three or four days. js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chromes V8. doc format, where it was stored in the document, in a predictable place.
exes you see advertised are generally only capable of retrieving the password from the obsolete. Most of them won't.) do you really think that they won't sell the content to anyone else? The password is NOT stored in the document these days, so you end up having to crack the encryption on the entire document.Įffectively, it's too tough for a home computer: you need a rack of servers and several days or weeks.Īs Rich says, if you are entirely comfortable handing your credit card details to someone who cracks passwords for a living, there are several services that will offer to try, if you send them the document to attack on their servers.
The encryption was upgraded to the latest standard in Word 2011: and the entire document is now encrypted.
