Re: 2nd Patch - BIFF5 era XOR crypto

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 02:28:33PM +0000, Nick Lamb wrote:
> Revised patch, still against latest 1.2 CVS since I'm fairly sure this
> machine won't have the dependencies needed to build and test 1.3

Please send the patch.

> This version deals with actual single-sheet BIFF crypto, which was not
> previously working because the FILEPASS is in the different place. In
> a sense this patch is a bug-fix, because there's no way the average user
> knows if a file used XOR crypto or the later more secure stuff. I guess
> it still won't make 1.2.x though :(

Your patch is in 1.3 now.  If there are no problems in the next
month I'll apply for 1.2.6

> BTW If you have such files and can't find the password, I also announced
> a Free Software version of those XL password finders you see advertised,
> on my source code page http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~njl98r/code/

Lovely thanks.