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  Flaw found in Office encryption
Time: 02:36 EST/07:36 GMT | News Source: CNET | Posted By: Robert Stein

The data protection feature in Microsoft Word and Excel documents has a major flaw that could allow snoopers to decode password-protected files, a security researcher has warned. The problem arises because Microsoft programmers did not implement the encryption correctly in its Office applications, Hongjun Wu, a cryptographer at the Institute of Infocomm Research in Singapore, wrote in a paper on the topic.

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