Quoting Aaron Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Would you care to elaborate on the reason for this? > > I admit that I haven't really been following the list, but my fear is > that this is for encryption, or even worse: DRM.
Maybe I need to explain myself better. MSWord documents CAN be password protected. Note that this password is really easy to crack because of the simple XOR scheme used, but since cracking that password automatically would probably be a violation of the DMCA or some other law, we instead try something legal - namely, getting the password from the user and then authenticating the user using that token. The DOC Import Filter needs a way to get a password from the user when it encounters one of these password-protected documents. That's ALL this dialog is meant for, at least for the time being. To the best of my knowledge, there's no effort underway to password-protect or encrypt AbiWord documents. Thomas Frydrych suggested implementing something like this as a plugin maybe sometime in the future. If you want the effect of an encrypted document right now, an easy suggestion is to use an external PGP program. And yes, MD5 is being deprecated in favor of SHA. Dom
