Xlcrack is a small tool to recover lost and forgotten passwords from XLS files. Works on most Un*x systems, but it needs libgsf, most commonly installed along with Gnumeric. Some newer XLS files are not suitable for password recovery using this software - works on Excel 95 and older.
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