pjfanning commented on issue #1015:
URL: https://github.com/apache/poi/issues/1015#issuecomment-3933005314

   This is not how you raise security bugs. They should be reported privately. 
See https://github.com/apache/poi?tab=security-ov-file#readme
   
   In this case, I don't agree that this is a security bug but it would be nice 
to improve the code.
   POI's trunk branch is for developing 6.0.0 and in that branch, we can add 
new methods.
   Unfortunately, passwords as Strings is widespread in POI code and it will 
take a lot of work to support using char arrays as well or instead. I don't 
think we can just remove the API methods that take passwords as Strings without 
deprecating them and waiting to remove them - but we can add new char array 
based methods.
   
   It would be nice to be able to work with HSSFWorkbooks that are password 
protected without having to use Biff8EncryptionKey - again new API methods.
   
   Would you be interested in working on PRs?


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