Password check for DOC files

[tepez]

I need to write a program which, given a password protected DOC file and a string, checks whether the string is the password of the file.

Any ideas on how to approach this problem?

[Sahir]

You did not say what version what framework etc. !!! .NET or MFC ???

Assuming the latest VC version and default framework ( VS2008 and .NET)

using namespace System;
using namespace Reflection;
int main(array<System::String ^> ^args){
      Word::Application^ wdApp = gcnew Word::Application();
      Object^% file = gcnew String("c:\\Test\\doc1.doc");
      Object^% pwd = gcnew String("opensesame");
      Word::Document^ wdDoc;
      wdApp->Visible = true; 
      try {
      wdDoc = wdApp->Documents->Open( file , Missing::Value, 
                                      Missing::Value, Missing::Value, 
                                      pwd, Missing::Value, 
                                      Missing::Value, Missing::Value, 
                                      Missing::Value, Missing::Value,
                                      Missing::Value, Missing::Value, 
                                      Missing::Value, Missing::Value, 
                                      Missing::Value, Missing::Value 
                                      );
      }
      catch(Exception^ e) {
        Console::WriteLine(e->Message); 
     }
      if(wdDoc != nullptr) {
        Console::WriteLine("The document was opened successfully!");
      } 
      Console::ReadLine();  
      return 0;
}

[tepez]

Thanks.

This would word in Windows.

How can I do this in linux, without the use of MS Word's API?

[ovidiucucu]

My dear friend, you are on a wrong way.
Try wasting your energy for a better cause!

[tepez]

Yet, any ideas?

[ovidiucucu]

There is no good reason to encourage password crackers.

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[Ejaz]

Yet, any ideas?

For more ideas, you need to provide more information. What you are intended to do ( and why since I do smell something weird, like Ovidiu ), for what platform, which complier, anything you done so far and if you found any problems, what were they.

This is neither a hacking/cracking site, nor "rent-a-coder" sort of place.