Possible to crack excel files?
Okay so I downloaded an excel file but the file is password prompted. Can anyone help me out. Thanks
Posted Jun 7, 2016, 8:10 PM UTC
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very very very old versions of Office used to be very crackable because the password was in the header and the file encryption wasn't sophisticated.
anything newer (forgot when Microsoft fixed it, but 2013 definitely counts), the password is the seed for the encryption so the only way to break a password to open the file is to brute force it.
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Thanks I've downloaded a program to try and brute force it
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lol, good luck with that unless you already know any portion of it it's going to take you years
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Depending on which version, it can be very easy.
Cant really tell but i think its 2013
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=excel+2013+password+remover