https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=119152

Andre <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Andre <[email protected]> ---
Some observations:

- OpenOffice is not designed as DRM enabled viewer.

- But AOO should handle encrypted files better.

- OpenOffice is not designed to not use temporary files for images.

- The user that has the password for a file has also access to the images. 
There is not much we can do about that.

- Other users should not have access to the images.


My conclusions:

- I accept this bug as a security problem but not as a DRM problem.

- Don't try to avoid temporary files.

- Try to fix this in one of two ways or possibly both:

 = As Rob suggested, restrict access rights for temporary files to a minimum
(read/writable by the user).

 = Encrypt the temporary files before storing them on disk.


As I don't know if encrypting temporary files is feasible--we can not ask the
user for the password each time a temp file written or read; therefore we have
to store it--we probably should focus on restricting access rights.

I don't know if anybody know the temp file mechanism well enough to finish this
for the 4.0 release.

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