That said, if I had a set of business-critical documents, I would test
some sample documents at each major OS, hardware, or office software
upgrade. Before decommissioning the last instance of the old system,
load and read a few sample documents on the new system. If there is a
problem, use the old system to convert to an updated format.
On 6/10/2016 7:29 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote:
Hi Roger
If you saved them in OpenOffice's default format, OpenDocument (.odt / .ods
/ .odb etc.), then yes. Password protection is part of the OpenDocument
standard, and should be supported by us and other OpenDocument software
such as AbiWord, Gnumeric, Microsoft Office, etc. for a long time. The
encryption techniques are all well documented and use common well
established ciphers, hash functions and password strengthening procedures.
With long term storage, the problem won't be data becoming inaccessible due
to encryption (provided you remember your passwords), so much as the
opposite problem, of data becoming too easily accessible, since older
versions of OpenDocument used weaker encryption ciphers, potentially making
document encryption too easy to crack by future weaknesses discovered in
those ciphers and with more powerful computers in the future.
Regards
Damjan
On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Roger Bentley <roger.bent...@outlook.com>
wrote:
Dear Sir/Madam
I have a large number of important documents that I have created over the
years in Open Office, which were created as password protected documents.
Is there any likelihood in the future of any ‘redundancy’ or suchlike
where these documents would be no longer accessible by future then current
software etc? Or will the files always remain safe, in that there will
always be an Open Office allied program capable of unlocking their password
protected format?
I will be very grateful of your reply.
With sincere regards
Roger Bentley
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