Peter Pentchev wrote:
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 10:39:52PM -0400, Dan Mundy wrote:
Berend Tober wrote:
I hate to admit that I still use MS-Excel rather than an open source
spread sheet tool, but workplace requirements constrain my fate...
Has anyone else managed a work-around for this flaw? (Aside from the
obvious -- "Stop using MS-Excel!" -- because that is a failure I cannot
control...)
use openoffice.org: it is opensource and fully compatible with
microsoft. now it is a failure you can control. see
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/instructions.html#win for how to
install it.
Hate to point out the obvious, but unfortunately, it just might be that
Berend canNOT control whether his coworkers also use OpenOffice or MS
Excel, in which case the problem of a coworker opening a signed
spreadsheet and invalidating the signature still stands.
Indeed, and I even included in my original post "(Aside from the obvious
-- "Stop using MS-Excel!" -- because that is a failure I cannot
control...)". Kids these days....
Anyway, I've looked at WinPT and GPGee and one other GUI wrapper around
gnupg, but they all of course are victims of this MS Excel "feature",
and furthermore none of them satisfy my other need to be able to support
multiple persons signing any given document, either (cf. other mailing
list message thread "Multiple signatures on a single file").
A little further roughhousing with the command line shows that a DOS
batch file script with
gsign.bat:
@echo off
attrib +r %2
gpg -b -u %1 -o - %2>>%2.sig
accomplished 1) setting the target file read-only attribute, which
prevents MS Excel from doing what ever it does to modify the file,
despite the user's intention otherwise, and 2) satisfies my other need
to be able to let multiple individuals sign a given document
Then a companion script
gverify.bat:
gpg --verify %1
will list the several valid signatures written to a file.
Of course, I really don't think anyone that isn't enough of a geek to
appreciate the command line will be able to accept a solution like this
for signing documents, even if it does eliminate the need for producing
hard-copy document print outs just for the purpose of marking with a
pen-and-ink signature.
Gosh, I might have to roll my own GUI.
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