Re: Encryption/password protected excel/word files

2007-04-17 Thread David Fisher
Since the apache servers are in the United States, and the Apache Foundation is a US not for profit corporation, all projects are required to meet US Export regulations with regard to encryption technology. See http://www.apache.org/licenses/exports/ Regards, Dave On Apr 17, 2007, at 12:1

Re: Encryption/password protected excel/word files

2007-04-17 Thread Rainer Klute
Andrew C. Oliver schrieb: > Guys lets stay away from encryption. We'd have to do all this > registering with the government and a whole lot of hassle for not much > benefit. Lame encryption to boot. This depends. We here in Europe or at least here in Germany don't have to do any registering with

Re[2]: Encryption/password protected excel/word files

2007-04-17 Thread Nick Burch
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Yegor Kozlov wrote: I wonder if Microsoft uses encryption compatible with javax.crypto.*. If yes, we have a chance to decode it. Otherwise it is not worth the trouble. I don't think they do. For PPT, there's a choice of about 10 different encryption options, almost all of

Re[2]: Encryption/password protected excel/word files

2007-04-17 Thread Yegor Kozlov
I wonder if Microsoft uses encryption compatible with javax.crypto.*. If yes, we have a chance to decode it. Otherwise it is not worth the trouble. Yegor NB> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Justin Warren wrote: >> I should mention that the exceptions don't really tell if the files are >> password protected

Re: Encryption/password protected excel/word files

2007-04-17 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Guys lets stay away from encryption. We'd have to do all this registering with the government and a whole lot of hassle for not much benefit. Lame encryption to boot. Nick Burch wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Justin Warren wrote: I should mention that the exceptions don't really tell if the fil

RE: Encryption/password protected excel/word files

2007-04-17 Thread Nick Burch
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Justin Warren wrote: I should mention that the exceptions don't really tell if the files are password protected or not. For word, I catch an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException, or java.lang.NegativeArraySizeException. I'm guessing that is not the expected behaviour. With powe

RE: Encryption/password protected excel/word files

2007-04-17 Thread Justin Warren
tin Warren Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 2:49 PM To: poi-user@jakarta.apache.org Subject: Encryption/password protected excel/word files Hi all, I am trying to detect if a file is password protected before reading it (ie, if it is password protected, I want to ignore it). Right now, I am jus

Encryption/password protected excel/word files

2007-04-16 Thread Justin Warren
Hi all, I am trying to detect if a file is password protected before reading it (ie, if it is password protected, I want to ignore it). Right now, I am just catching exceptions that get thrown, but I was wondering if there was another way of doing this. Thanks