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This application allows you to generate a viable CD registry key for some Microsoft applications

This application allows you to generate a viable CD registry key for some Microsoft applications

Vote: (23 votes)

Program license: Free

Developer: excel-cracker

Version: 2.2

Works under: Windows

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Program license

(23 votes)

Free

Developer

Version

excel-cracker

2.2

Works under:

Windows

Pros

  • Recovers Excel passwords
  • Intuitive and easy to use

Cons

  • Brute force method

MS Word Excel Cracker helps to recover passwords for password-protect Excel documents.

Microsoft Excel offers the option to password protect the documents that it can create or edit. Once in place, password protection can be used either to prevent users from viewing a worksheet or editing it. If a user password protects a document and then forgets that password, that is a problem, and MS Word Excel Cracker is a program designed to overcome that problem.

Although MS Word Excel Cracker could be used for nefarious purposes, it is designed first and foremost to help regular users overcome forgotten or misplaced information. In fact, the program is not all that practical for the person who uses it for illegal means because it is not particularly time-effective. It exists as option for the person who needs a solution no matter how long it takes.

The user interface is well-designed. There are many options for the advanced user, but the basic options are front and center and simple to use. MS Word Excel Cracker can use two different approaches to cracking an Excel document: dictionary attack and brute force attack.

A dictionary attack has the potential to be a lot faster, but it has a blind spot in that it is limited to the passwords contained in its list. As password design has become more sophisticated, dictionary attacks have become less effective. The brute force method is more versatile in that passwords are generated. The solution will eventually be created, but the downside to this approach is that it can take an unknown amount of time and processing power to achieve that result.

Note that MS Word Excel Cracker does support pause and resume. You can suspend the password cracking process when, for instance, it is time to turn off the computer. It can also recover from a crash, resume the process and not have to repeat itself much to get back to where it was.

Pros

  • Recovers Excel passwords
  • Intuitive and easy to use

Cons

  • Brute force method

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