While on this topic, we have Excel document and want to protect it from modification. POI provides something to mart each cell "protected". But this can be easily changed back. Is there is something to make excel document un-modifiable with the password?
Thank you -----Original Message----- From: Raghu Kaippully [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 23:48 To: POI Users List Subject: Re: Password protected WordFile Its more than saying password=xxxx. I think using "password for open" will encrypt the document using RC4 encryption. RC4 is not patented but is a trade secret of RSA <http://www.tech-faq.com/rc4.shtml>. Anyway traditionally, POI has avoided touching encryption. ----Taken from: http://poi.apache.org/faq.html---- Protecting a spreadsheet encrypts it. We wont touch encryption because we're not legally educated and don't understand the full implications of trying to implement this. If you wish to have a go at this feel free to add it as a plugin module. We wont be hosting it here however. -------------------------------------------------------------------- -Raghu On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:32 PM, cybbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hallo everyone, > > we are a group of students in germany and we have to do an project where > we > should try to "read" a protected WORD Document (password is known) with > POI. > Problem is we find no solution how to get it to work :( > Is there any way how we can solve this problem? Maybe a line in the > java-code where we can "say" password=XXXX ? > > Thanks for help > > cybbe > > PS: Hope you know what I mean :) > Sorry for my bad english.... > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Password-protected-WordFile-tp16446354p16446354.ht ml > Sent from the POI - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
