Thanks for the link
On 12/19/2013 01:05 AM, Massimo Del Zotto wrote:
2013/12/18 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org
mailto:and...@pitonyak.org
You mean recently?As in the latest version of LO has a problem
with passwords?
No, I am referring to OOo. I am considering to
On 12/17/2013 10:12 AM, Massimo Del Zotto wrote:
However, I recently had a problem with OOo password protection. Somehow it
disabled password protection for a file I was working on and it took me a
while to restore it. Asking for help on OOo forum, I have been informed
password protection is
I don't know if this is relevant to Massimo's case but it might be:
I had a problem a while back with Fedora 15 (and I don't remember which
version of OO or LO): I would discover that I could open a
password-protected spreadsheet without being prompted for the password.
It turned out that it had
2013/12/18 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org
You mean recently?As in the latest version of LO has a problem with
passwords?
No, I am referring to OOo. I am considering to switch to LO because of
this problem and I'm trying to figure out if this problem is considered
more important
Yes Eric, those problems are surely related as crashes are involved in my
case as well (and I fixed it in the same way).
The implication is that temporary saves are not encrypted. Given the modest
size of **usual** files this could probably be done with little performance
loss but after all, this
Hello mailing list users.
I am currently an OOo user. It's a while I hear about LO, but so far never
got truly disappointed by it so I resisted change.
However, I recently had a problem with OOo password protection. Somehow it
disabled password protection for a file I was working on and it took me
Hi :)
Hopefully there was just a misunderstanding somewhere there! Password
protection can be useful but only really when used in combination with
other security measures.
There were some problems early on, around 3.3.x maybe up to 3.4.x but
i haven't heard of any problems for years now.
I think I need to better define context.
There's no need to consider inter-operability. It is years I use open
document format only and convert on requirement. Of course this operation
is considered with care.
People interested in choosing a password might have to check
arstechnica.comas they
Hi :)
Thought a few people might be interested in these links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_Ripper
http://xkcd.com/936/
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/25-most-used-passwords-revealed-is-yours-one-of-them/12427
So a hugely significant number of people still think that password
is an
