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RWood · 02-15-2007, 11:12 PM

Scotty, this worked on a DEC PDP-10 a long time ago so I'm not sure how it fit in the Sony Reader: We created another file (text) to hold the password and a program (think padded cell) to feed the password to the software. We trapped the call for the password and responded from the text file. I hope the solution is as simple as that. This would not be a crack of the PDF DRM, just a method of using the password.

Some modern software that I run also checks the CPU serial number on install and uses that as part of the encoding so even with the password I cannot use the software on another machine.

02-15-2007, 11:12 PM	#3
RWood Technogeezer Posts: 7,233 Karma: 1601464 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Virginia, USA Device: Sony PRS-500	Scotty, this worked on a DEC PDP-10 a long time ago so I'm not sure how it fit in the Sony Reader: We created another file (text) to hold the password and a program (think padded cell) to feed the password to the software. We trapped the call for the password and responded from the text file. I hope the solution is as simple as that. This would not be a crack of the PDF DRM, just a method of using the password. Some modern software that I run also checks the CPU serial number on install and uses that as part of the encoding so even with the password I cannot use the software on another machine.