break prc password

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With neither thought nor caution, Tony Freehauf blurted:
> hi experts
> i believe there is a way to break a processing password without sending 
> it to filepro. Can anyone help me with this
> thanks
> old tony freehauf


Tony,

No offense, but...well:  "Anyone want to go to jail?"

Recall the lawsuit Adobe won (and the criminal charges filed) under the
DMCA when that guy broke their PDF encryption.  The DMCA, to the best of my
knowledge, makes it illegal to reverse engineer any algorithm that is
designed to protect copyright.  The wording of the law is so broad in scope
that many legitimate reverse engineering attempts are no longer legally
tenable.

I'm paranoid enough to believe that, while the spirit of the law might not
be being violated, the letter could be bent against anyone that tried if
the wrong parties were sufficiently annoyed (or fiscally motivated).

Even if I was heavily into cryptography (though I'm kind of doubting it's very
robustly encrypted), I'd take a pass on this one.  Too much possibility for
exposure.

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