Dear Debian folks, I use Open Office. It works OK for me most of the time. It can save files as Microsoft Word documents. I work with people who use MSWindows software all the time such as MSWord etc. I want to send an encrypted or password protected file to them.
If you produce a word processor document in MSWord apparently according them you just click on some menu item with encypt on it and it encrypts the document for you. Whether it attaches a password to it as well or how the user at the other end decrypts it I don't know.... But with OpenOffice it doesn't look like there is an encryption function on it like there is in MSWord but there is a password protection option when you save a file in it. If you look on google for Openoffice stuff on encryption on there it all reads like a chapter from Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce or even that it has itself been partly encrypted..... If you want to password protect or encrypt some files reasonably competently and then send them in a format the MSWindows world would decrypt relatively easily what would you do? Do I have to use other software like GnuPGP or whatever it is conjunction with Open Office? Maybe I should just copy the files on to CD and then send them by old fashioned snail mail. That really would confuse the hackers. Suggestions welcome, Michael Fothergill
