Hi David, I haven’t heard of this happening, but it is serious if this is so. You didn’t export the password protected pages document to another format did you? "If the document you want to export is password-protected, the password protection is removed from Word, RTF, and plain text formats.”
I’ve never been able to find out from Apple what level of encryption is used in Pages’09. They have never mentioned (as far as I know) if it is 128-bit encryption. This is why I have never used the 'Password to Open’ security feature on any Pages document that has confidential information in it. The safest way is to create an encrypted disk image using Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility, and put your document on that one. You can use 128-bit or 256-bit encryption, which should be good enough for most purposes. Sorry I can’t help why this has happened on your document, if I find any information regarding this I’ll post back. I’m a bit stressed for time at the moment, but when I can I’ll try on a few of my Pages’09 documents. Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard OS X 10.7 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 29/09/2011, at 11:32 AM, David Nicholas wrote: > I have just discovered what seems to be at first look a serious security > problem with the latest Pages on Snow Leopard. Or perhaps it is just my > machine. > > I have a pages document which is security protected with a Password. Today, > not having closed the machine the night before, I used the file but then > closed it, as part of demonstrating to my partner how the security works! > However, when I re-opened it there was no screen requiring a Password!!!! I > fussed around for a while, then rebooted the machine and the same thing > happened. To the best of my memory today is the first time a Password has > not been required. > > I went into Inspector and sure enough on the Document menu the "Require > password to open" box was ticked. I went off to "Change password". I > entered the Old password which I store in my personal short term memory and > then entered (twice of course) a new password - stored in the same place. > Now I rebooted my machine and sure enough when I opened the file it required > a password, which I entered successfully. > > However, when I again rebooted the machine the file opened without requiring > a password. > > It seems as if when I first open the file using the correct current password > that password is then stored somewhere which survives the file being closed > or the machine being rebooted. When I change the password that new password > doesn't go into whatever memory is being used until it is used to open the > file. > > I'm fairly sure that this is the first time I have observed this behaviour. > I often close down the machine at night, but not always. I didn't last > night, but I did the night before and therefore would have had to open the > file yesterday morning. I don't remember what happened when I opened it, but > I assume I would have noticed if the password wasn't required. > > Can anybody shed light on this anomalous behaviour? It's an important file > which I want to keep protected. Have I somehow allowed someone out there > access to my iMac to plant some kind of Trojan? I could start a rather > tedious procedure where I always change the password before I close the file. > Any suggestions? > > > David Nicholas > > Pages 09 4.1 > > iMac OS X 10.6.8 > > iTunes 10.4 > > David Nicholas -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
