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< *Koptekst 3L *OpsomtekenO ³ Swiss ÿÿÿÿ h 3 r h 3 r Ð Ð \ c e f d \ c D e f L d ý . ÆA Å[Password Section]Password SectionThis sextion is found in documents that have been encrypted with a password. Its contents is not yet fully decoded. It is 29 bytes long. Size Data Description B Always A2 ? W Always 01 00 ? W Checksum ? L «ID» Always 03 01 00 10 ? 20B Encrypted passwordPresumably, the plaintext password is put through a (one-way?) hash function and the result is put in this section.[Encrypted Sections]Encrypted SectionsIf a file is encrypted by a password, only a few sections will actually be encrypted: Filetype SectionID Section Name «Word File» 10000106 «Text Section» «Sheet File» 1000011D 10000121[Encryption Method]Encryption MethodThe plaintext is separated into blocks of 20 bytes. The last block is padded with bytes containing 30. Each block is encypted by adding a 20 byte long key. This key is somehow based on the plaintext password (probably through a similar, though different, hash function as that which is used to encrypt the password), and it is the same for each block. The resulting encryption seems to be fairly weak. For a word file, for example, you can gather a lot of information from the other (unencrypted) sections; for a longer text, this is probably enough to break the encryption key, without ever needing the plaintext password! This could even be automated somewhat: if there is a ParagraphElement List, you know the length of each paragraph; you also know that (almost) all paragraphs end with a 06 byte. ð " Courier New ð "Times New Roman È " Courier New t V $ & a à ð |
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