Dear Ahmed:
Any open office file can be protected in a number of ways.
1)The entire file can be saved with a password, provided it is saved in
the appropriate Open office native format.
2)Spreadsheets in Calc can also be protected, with selective control; of
what cells are
Hi Ahmed and Bruce,
thanks for looking at this - I must admit that I am not very familiar
with the different cell/sheet protection features in Calc.
I just wanted to point that this is _not_ a security issue, and even not
a privacy issue.
Cell protection is a pure UI feature. The content is not
Good Morning Malte:
It is possible in that case that Oo needs to automatically encrypt Calc
sheets where sheet protection is activated, but not necessarily require a
password to open the file unless the file is saved with one.
This would seem to me to mean the need for a front end layer to the
On Thursday 29 October 2009 14:32:52 Ahamed Fasudeen wrote:
Hi Team,
I'm newly use openoffice...I have some query realted for password security.
Currently i'm using MSoffice2003. In that i have protect the sheet
workbook
And i have protect the cell A2:C22(attached sheet) with password
Hello,
Malte Timmermann schrieb:
Cell protection is a pure UI feature. The content is not encrypted in
the document (except for password protected documents).
So this issue might end up in a missing feature in Calc (cell protection
doesn't work w/o sheet protection), or in a bug that the xls
Hi Bruce,
short answer - encryption only makes sense when the key is provided from
the user, or some other source, like a private key certificate.
It is not possible for OOo to encrypt anything on it's own w/o using a
static hard coded password, or using a random password and store it in
the
