On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:10:48 +0100 Came this utterance fomulated by Harold Fuchs to my mailbox:
> On 13/09/2008 19:47, jonathon wrote: > > <snip> > > One of the major issues with the password scheme that OOo uses, is > > that if one forgets the password, it probably will be cheaper and > > faster to recreate the document from scratch, than pay to have the > > password recovered. > > (Basically, if OOo Pasword Cracker > > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=87718&package_id=173080 > > doesn't recover the password within one month, the odds are that it > > will years to recover the password.) > > > > > And why exactly is this "a major issue"? Or even a minor one? IMHO it > would be more of an issue if a cracker could guess the password in a > short time. The idea of passwords is to *prevent* access to data. > Either don't use them or don't forget them. Or use a secure password > manager. I agree with Harold here. The password is meant to be safe, ideally totally uncrackable. But we do not live in a perfect world alas. I also therefore agree with Jonathon that it will usually be cheaper to rewrite the document from scratch. Or try one of these: http://www.google.com/search?q=top+ten+passwords+used Some more alternatives before the fact: On your local "password protected computer login" have two copies. One for your own use without password, one to provide to others where a password is required. For the above - ensure it is a windows computer in case you forget your login password as well. That password won't take a month to bypass. For that matter a linux login password wont take a month to bypass either. One last alternative, this depends on why the file was password protected in the first instance. OP could export the original file as a PDF instead. This doesn't protect the data in that it is readable by anyone but it cannot be readily modified by just anyone. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
