[discuss] Passwords (was: Bruce Schneier advices against MSO)

2005-02-03 Thread Lars D. Noodn
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Daniel Carrera wrote: [...] The system Smoot recommended is good, and is popular advice. Think of a phrase that you can remember easily. [...] Umich has had good guidelines for a long time, though more recently the recommended number of characters has increased to 9:

Re: [discuss] Passwords (was: Bruce Schneier advices against MSO)

2005-02-03 Thread Lars D. Noodn
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Daniel Carrera wrote: [...] how can a one-time pad be useful? [..] Sorry. One time pad can also have some very specific meanings within cryptography meaning a one time pad of encryption keys. I was thinking more along the lines of single use passwords, which is common. A

Re: [discuss] Passwords (was: Bruce Schneier advices against MSO)

2005-02-03 Thread Lars D. Noodn
I probaby meant to say 'pad of single use passwords', but made some mistakes in both the terminology in use and my writing. ;) Yes, a big limitation is distributing the passwords. Single use passwords are usually transmitted out of band. I nthe case of banks, they send a new list of 50 or a

Re: [discuss] DRM

2005-02-03 Thread Lars Oppermann
Daniel Carrera wrote: Lars Oppermann wrote: While defining a DRM container is possible (as we all aggree), the problem is with the enforcment of that container on an open platform. 'Enforce' and 'open' just don't work well together I guess ;) Though it's not inconceivable. After all, the most

Re: [discuss] XSLT to convert tables

2005-02-03 Thread Alexandro Colorado
When installing OOo select custom instead of default. On custom you can manually select which modules to install one of this modules is the XSLT filters. When you install your filters you can export to XHTML. The actual XSLT is on this path: /openoffice.org/share/xslt/xhtml/ -- Alexandro

[discuss] Re: Microsoft opens Office formats

2005-02-03 Thread Johan Vromans
Peter Kupfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ...in a grander sense, if MS does open its format and keeps it that way, ... which I do not believe until I've seen it. -- Johan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [discuss] Passwords (was: Bruce Schneier advices against MSO)

2005-02-03 Thread Smoot Carl-Mitchell
On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 05:07 -0500, Lars D. Noodén wrote: Also, IMHO, if your bank does not use a one-time pad for passwords as *part* of the authentication process, then you should switch banks ASAP. Usually when switching bank, you can negotiate better deals and a few perks depending on

Re: [discuss] Passwords (was: Bruce Schneier advices against MSO)

2005-02-03 Thread Smoot Carl-Mitchell
On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 05:33 -0500, Lars D. Noodén wrote: A one time pad is useful in situations where the password can or is intercepted. Kerberos tickets use this principle, IIRC, though not actual Kerberos passwords unless you front end it to S/Key or something similar. S/Key is not a

Re: [discuss] Re: Bruce Schneier advices against MSO

2005-02-03 Thread Smoot Carl-Mitchell
On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 08:34 +0100, blabla wrote: So if I save all my passwords (I simply don't for banking...) using Mozilla, are you saying that this is a stupid thing to do? I save most of my Website passwords in Firefox, but I encrypt them with a long passphrase. I do not think this is

Re: [discuss] XSLT to convert tables

2005-02-03 Thread Fabio Batalha
Hi Alexandro, I did this, I was doing some tests with this sample but I saw that it doesn´t work well with complex tables. Do you know how can I solve this problem? I´m sending to you one of the tests done with Open Office 1.9.62 Tks On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 16:34:41 +0200, Alexandro Colorado

Re: [discuss] XSLT to convert tables

2005-02-03 Thread Alexandro Colorado
No I don't, tables are evil. You should use CSS instead. Tables should only be present on tabular data. What you sent me makes not much sense. I guess you could work on the XSLT colspan behavior, that's all I can say. -- Alexandro Colorado Co-Leader of OpenOffice.org Spanish

[discuss] Public Domain Image Site

2005-02-03 Thread Jonathon Coombes
Hi All, I was recently sent details of a site that contains public domain photos. This may be of use to the project, or at least to people who use OOo and need something in their galleries. :) http://www.burningwell.org/gallery/ I suggest if people are interested, please join and upload some

Re: [discuss] Public Domain Image Site

2005-02-03 Thread Jonathon Coombes
On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 21:45 -0500, Daniel Carrera wrote: Jonathon, Do you think there's a chance we'll convince the release team to include a few more templates, photos and clipart with OOo? I've been arguing about that for ages. There are thousands of public domain photos from Open Clip

Re: [discuss] Public Domain Image Site

2005-02-03 Thread Daniel Carrera
Jonathon Coombes wrote: From memory, the main issue with clipart,photos etc were that Sun could not validate them. So what they wanted was for all submissions (same with the code) to be licensed as Sun being part owners. This idea was absurd when it came to public domain images etc and I

Re: [discuss] Thoughts about saving files in non-OO native format

2005-02-03 Thread Daniel Carrera
Jonathon Blake wrote: so I can learn about those features. Styles are your friend. That's a very cute non-answer, but I was hoping to hear something meaningful. -- Daniel Carrera | Rigorous reasoning from inapplicable Join OOoAuthors today! | assumptions yields the world's