From: Guanliang Liu <lovelymmx@...>
Date: 2007-05-04T06:13:02+09:00
Subject: Re: parse excel spreadsheet with password

Todd Benson wrote:
> 
> I believe you need a password cracking utility, or you
> need to make use of a password cracking service
> (http://www.passwordbusters.com).  Recent MSOffice
> versions apparently use 40-bit RC4 encryption.
> 
> You can write your own common-password cracking
> utility.  If you're adventurous and have a
> supercomputer handy, you can write a brute force
> decryption utility.  Maybe, someday that will be a
> ruby quiz ...  no way to test, though :)


thanks, but what i need is not a password cracker.
I have already found some useful reference on msdn. 
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.office.interop.excel.workbooks.open(vs.80).aspx

password could be passed as a parameter into the Workbooks.Open method 
:)

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