Would like to recover my old Apple File Security password

Hi,
Here is a continuation of a prior problem. Several years ago I encrypted some Appleworks WP files using Apple File Security while using OS 9. I now have a fully functional Classic available on an iMac G5 (OS10.4.4) (thanx to forum respondants) and I have discovered that I must have used a different password to encrypt them than I thought I have always used for everything. Initially I didn’t care but actually they do represent some legal issues of the past that if it was feasible to recover the password for I would appreciate the opportunity. If this requires advanced skills forget it, I don’t have them and if there is illegality involved forget it since I have no desire to do that either. I have seen them in their encrypted format so I know they are there. Just obviously not readable. Thanx.
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Spock,
Unfortunately, I don't know of any crack for resolving this. Files that come out of Apple File Security are actually encrypted and compressed. I have a feeling that the password used is actually used as the encryption key. This is rather than just a simple security barrier in the Mac OS to prevent access by Mac applications.
I'd even hoped that as the documents are WP docs, a disk scanning program - or Terminal in Mac OSX - could rescue the contents, but as they're compressed, you've had it.
If it was me and my files, I'd try to find out more about the compression and encryption algorithms used by Apple File Security in Mac OS 9 (and maybe Mac OS 8) documentation. And then try to force decryption using Unix tools on your whizzy new iMac, ie. trying every word in a dictionary between 5 and 8 letters as the password would take a few hours of CPU.
A moot point if you know that your password choices are designed to specifically not appear in a dictionary, ie. contain numbers, etc.

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