On Wednesday 02 August 2006 15:28, Immanuel CRC Office wrote: > Andy Luddy wrote: > > Norm Leaf wrote: > >> I have previously used Microsoft Office 2000, and with their program I > >> used password to prevent someone from opening personal financial > >> document when they are on my computer. Is it possible to do the same > >> with Open Office 2.0. > > > > When you create the document, File / Save As and check "Save With > > Password". IIUC, this is only available if you are saving in Open > > Document or OpenOffice 1.0 formats, not StarXxx or MS Office formats. > > On a side note, how do passwords work with the ODF? Can you not just > unzip the file? or is it all gobbledegook when you do that when there is > a password?
A check on a small example shows that the saved file is a normal zip file. The manifest and metadata are clear and contain, among other things, details of the type of cryptographic transformations in use; but no password. The other files, like content, styles etc. are encrypted. And yes, the type of encryption is strong - no chance of decrypting in a reasonable amount of time without the password. -- Andy Pepperdine On this mailing list help is provided by volunteers. Please subscribe to the mailing list to see all the replies to a query, and reply only to the mailing list. For FAQ, userguide, see: http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
