[Discuss] Password-protected PDF file?

2013-02-17 Thread Scott Ehrlich
How safe is a password-protected PDF file sent via email? I've never run a sniffer to see what could be learned from doing this. Thanks. Scott ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Password-protected PDF file?

2013-02-17 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 08:53:31AM -0500, Scott Ehrlich wrote: How safe is a password-protected PDF file sent via email? I've never run a sniffer to see what could be learned from doing this. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Adobe/Gallery/anon21jul01-pdf-encryption.txt I would consider that the

Re: [Discuss] Password-protected PDF file?

2013-02-17 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Scott Ehrlich How safe is a password-protected PDF file sent via email? I've never run a sniffer to see what could be learned from doing this. It varies according to the

Re: [Discuss] Password-protected PDF file?

2013-02-17 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey acrobat 3, 40-bit RC4 acrobat 6, 128-bit RC4 acrobat 7, 128-bit AES acrobat 9, 256-bit AES Sorry, forgot to mention. The above are maximums. The default