RE: Encryption/password protected excel/word files

2007-04-17 Thread Justin Warren
I should mention that the exceptions don't really tell if the files are password protected or not. For word, I catch an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException, or java.lang.NegativeArraySizeException. I'm guessing that is not the expected behaviour. thanks -Original Message- From: Justin Warren

Re: Encryption/password protected excel/word files

2007-04-17 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Guys lets stay away from encryption. We'd have to do all this registering with the government and a whole lot of hassle for not much benefit. Lame encryption to boot. Nick Burch wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Justin Warren wrote: I should mention that the exceptions don't really tell if the

Re[2]: Encryption/password protected excel/word files

2007-04-17 Thread Yegor Kozlov
I wonder if Microsoft uses encryption compatible with javax.crypto.*. If yes, we have a chance to decode it. Otherwise it is not worth the trouble. Yegor NB On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Justin Warren wrote: I should mention that the exceptions don't really tell if the files are password protected or

Re[2]: Encryption/password protected excel/word files

2007-04-17 Thread Nick Burch
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Yegor Kozlov wrote: I wonder if Microsoft uses encryption compatible with javax.crypto.*. If yes, we have a chance to decode it. Otherwise it is not worth the trouble. I don't think they do. For PPT, there's a choice of about 10 different encryption options, almost all

Re: Encryption/password protected excel/word files

2007-04-17 Thread Rainer Klute
Andrew C. Oliver schrieb: Guys lets stay away from encryption. We'd have to do all this registering with the government and a whole lot of hassle for not much benefit. Lame encryption to boot. This depends. We here in Europe or at least here in Germany don't have to do any registering with

Re: Encryption/password protected excel/word files

2007-04-17 Thread David Fisher
Since the apache servers are in the United States, and the Apache Foundation is a US not for profit corporation, all projects are required to meet US Export regulations with regard to encryption technology. See http://www.apache.org/licenses/exports/ Regards, Dave On Apr 17, 2007, at

3.0 release (and maven)

2007-04-17 Thread Joerg Hohwiller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, everybody is waiting for the 3.0 release and everything in head is better than an almost 3 years old release. Anyways take the time you need to have a release that you are happy with. I already migrated my project from 2.5.1-final-20040804

Re: 3.0 release (and maven)

2007-04-17 Thread David Fisher
Hi Jörg, I'm replying this to the poi-dev list as well as poi-user. It seems that Nick (who is building the current POI 3.0 RC candidates) could use some help with Maven. http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39977 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-04-10

Please help with ppt to txt code snippet...

2007-04-17 Thread Rupanu Ranjaneswar
Hello , I urgently and immediately need to convert some of my powerpoint files into txt files.I tried to use hslf but it's giving problems for slides with templates..Can anyone Please heilp with a code snippet do it..For your reference i am pasting my code here. --START CODE-- String str;