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> Behalf Of kapil dhakad
> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 11:11 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [iText-questions] Important things during Encryption of PDF
> 
> Hi,
> 
> PDF Encryption:
> 
> 1. If we encrypt PDF using iText, now suppose user/owner forgot
> password then how to get it back ?
>

There's no way to get a password back.
 
> 2. Can we store these password into database so that system
> administrator can easily get it back ? ( It will also act as an ideal
> solution for question 1 ? )
> 

That's up to you to do that or scribble it in a post-it and stuck it in
your monitor.

> 3. It seems that there are few tools which can decrypt PDF easily, so
> are there any other way to increase security of PDF documents ? Can we
> implement those using iText ?
> 

There are proprietary ways to encrypt and DRM but iText just supports
that standard ones that will work in Acrobat without third party
plug-ins.

> Waiting for feedback
> 
> - Kapil Dhakad
> ITShastra (I) Pvt. Ltd.
> 


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