On Friday 27 Nov 2009, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debian folks, > > I use Open Office. It works OK for me most of the time. It can save files > as Microsoft Word documents. I work with people who use MSWindows software > all the time such as MSWord etc. I want to send an encrypted or password > protected file to them. > > If you produce a word processor document in MSWord apparently according > them you just click on some menu item with encypt on it and it encrypts the > document for you. Whether it attaches a password to it as well or how the > user at the other end decrypts it I don't know....
Password-protected Office and ZIP files are so trivial to crack, that you might just as well be sending them in the clear. I'd use GnuPG to encrypt the e-mail message ..... unless I was sending it over a secure intranet with no outside world access (mailserver behind NAT, on an unroutable address and with no ports -- especially not 25 and 110 -- forwarded to the outside world). In which case, there's no need for encryption anyway. -- AJS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
