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Outlook Password Protection for Personal Folders (PST) is weak, very weak

Password protection of PST files is weak. Outlook uses a CRC32 algorithm vs MD5 or SHA-1. The CRC value may be recalculated to match the correct password with more than one possibility. A value of zero requires no password. A value other than zero, a password must be typed. A list of passwords to generate a zero value is below:…

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