java.jago wrote: >>If you want to choose the owner password, >>and you want this password to be used for >>creating a PDF on the client side, you can >>only protect this password 'psychologically'. >>Meaning you can obfuscate it, but a hacker >>will always be able to retrieve it. >> >> > >Thanks, > >Actually the program would do everything - the user is not prompted for >a password. The pdf should also be save from him! > Then why create the PDF at the client side? Why not create it on the server side?
> That's also a reason >why I can't use an unencrypted pdf and SSL - this would the user just to >read it from his disk, if he figures out where it is stored. > > Why do you store the PDF on disk? Why don't you send it as a stream? >I believe Zelix Klassmaster encrypts Strings in Java - so >"password_Example" becomes "F43Jff§234554" > >However - this is just done to distract people who decompile the code >and who want to understand what the code is doing by looking at the Strings. > > That's what I meant with 'psychological' protection. br, Bruno _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
