Re: [users] Secure a Document

2008-01-02 Thread Robin Laing
Frank Cox wrote: On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:36:27 -0700 Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how long does the battery have to be removed before BIOS is reset? I don't think this motherboard has a removable battery so that would require a soldering job, if you could even find the battery and

Re: [users] Secure a Document

2007-12-27 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2007/1/23, Harold Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tuesday, January 23, 2007 4:57 PM [GMT+1=CET], Dan Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comments inline. On Tuesday 23 January 2007 9:03 am, James Knott wrote: TerryJ wrote: Getting off topic, I've belatedly woken up to a major hole in the

Re: [users] Secure a Document

2007-12-27 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:07:07 +0100 Johnny Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the Linux OSs I've used, you need a password by default to log in. You can drive a truck through that with a live cd. The one I've got let's you log in as administrator (Linux = root) and have your evil

Re: [users] Secure a Document

2007-12-27 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 15:22 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:07:07 +0100 Johnny Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the Linux OSs I've used, you need a password by default to log in. You can drive a truck through that with a live cd. The one I've got let's you

Re: [users] Secure a Document

2007-12-27 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:36:27 -0700 Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how long does the battery have to be removed before BIOS is reset? I don't think this motherboard has a removable battery so that would require a soldering job, if you could even find the battery and assuming that it's not

Re: [users] Secure a Document

2007-01-25 Thread Harold Fuchs
On Thursday, January 25, 2007 5:47 AM [GMT+1=CET], Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 24 January 2007 16:50, Paul wrote: snip If you don't have the expertise to know whether they are implemented properly, consider how many successful attacks (apart from brute force of course) there

Re: [users] Secure a Document

2007-01-24 Thread Robin Laing
Harold Fuchs wrote: On Tuesday, January 23, 2007 4:57 PM [GMT+1=CET], Dan Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comments inline. The only real way to defeat a dictionary attack is to destroy the encrypted document after x failures (x = 3, 5 ?) and hope the attack isn't lucky within that x.

Re: [users] Secure a Document

2007-01-24 Thread Paul
There have been enough reports of OpenOffice failing to recognise passwords, and the files consequently becoming irretrievable, to convince me that password setting in OpenOffice is unreliable. Where? In nearly all cases that I've seen on this list, the password issue has been because the user

Re: [users] Secure a Document

2007-01-24 Thread John Meyer
Robin Laing wrote: Harold Fuchs wrote: On Tuesday, January 23, 2007 4:57 PM [GMT+1=CET], Dan Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comments inline. The only real way to defeat a dictionary attack is to destroy the encrypted document after x failures (x = 3, 5 ?) and hope the attack isn't

Re: [users] Secure a Document

2007-01-24 Thread Robert
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 16:50, Paul wrote: snip If you don't have the expertise to know whether they are implemented properly, consider how many successful attacks (apart from brute force of course) there have been on a password protected OOo document ... I can't remember any. My money

Re: [users] Secure a Document

2007-01-23 Thread TerryJ
John Meyer wrote: TerryJ wrote: I agree with using some such method (although probably suggested in jest) for a copy of the file NOT password-protected. There have been enough reports of OpenOffice failing to recognise passwords, and the files consequently becoming irretrievable,

Re: [users] Secure a Document

2007-01-23 Thread James Knott
TerryJ wrote: Getting off topic, I've belatedly woken up to a major hole in the security about which I'd been smug. On the Linux OSs I've used, you need a password by default to log in. You can drive a truck through that with a live cd. The one I've got let's you log in as administrator

Re: [users] Secure a Document

2007-01-23 Thread Dan Lewis
Comments inline. On Tuesday 23 January 2007 9:03 am, James Knott wrote: TerryJ wrote: Getting off topic, I've belatedly woken up to a major hole in the security about which I'd been smug. On the Linux OSs I've used, you need a password by default to log in. You can drive a truck

Re: [users] Secure a Document

2007-01-23 Thread Harold Fuchs
On Tuesday, January 23, 2007 4:57 PM [GMT+1=CET], Dan Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comments inline. On Tuesday 23 January 2007 9:03 am, James Knott wrote: TerryJ wrote: Getting off topic, I've belatedly woken up to a major hole in the security about which I'd been smug. On the Linux

Re: [users] Secure a Document

2007-01-22 Thread Dan Lewis
Copy sent to original poster. On Sunday 21 January 2007 9:57 am, Joe Conner wrote: To add password to a document already created, save it again click FILE - SAVE AS then when the window appears check the SAVE WITH PASSWORD at the bottom. I also recommend checking the AUTOMATIC FILE NAME

Re: [users] Secure a Document

2007-01-22 Thread TerryJ
John Meyer wrote: R. Greiss wrote: Hi, I need to secure a confidential Document with Password, but I don't know how. Can you please help Reiner Put it on a disk and throw it in a safe (preferably one welded to the floor). HTH I agree with using some such method (although

Re: [users] Secure a Document

2007-01-22 Thread John Meyer
TerryJ wrote: I agree with using some such method (although probably suggested in jest) for a copy of the file NOT password-protected. There have been enough reports of OpenOffice failing to recognise passwords, and the files consequently becoming irretrievable, to convince me that

[users] Secure a Document

2007-01-21 Thread R. Greiss
Hi, I need to secure a confidential Document with Password, but I don't know how. Can you please help Reiner

Re: [users] Secure a Document

2007-01-21 Thread John Meyer
R. Greiss wrote: Hi, I need to secure a confidential Document with Password, but I don't know how. Can you please help Reiner Put it on a disk and throw it in a safe (preferably one welded to the floor). HTH - To

Re: [users] Secure a Document

2007-01-21 Thread Joe Conner
To add password to a document already created, save it again click FILE - SAVE AS then when the window appears check the SAVE WITH PASSWORD at the bottom. I also recommend checking the AUTOMATIC FILE NAME EXTENSION box. It can save grief later. It is very important that you remember the