Re: [libreoffice-users] password problem

On Saturday 06 August 2011 18:36:54 Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> Bob,
>
> No worries about running the test.  It looks like the file extracted
> without any problem.  Most Zip utilities have an option to test a package
> rather than extract it.  The test report would indicate whether or not one
> of the files had some sort of discrepancy.  You can try it, but it looks
> like it should pass.

OK, I did. No errors

> The difficulty for you is that all of those files are still encrypted.
OK understood

> It appears that it is not the Zip that is corrupted, so you have to
> consider that there was an encryption failure.
>
> Now we need someone who can use the manifest.xml and those individual files
> and see which ones can be decrypted with the known password.
OK, I guess that means special knowledge by someone. I tried opening manifest 
ans see it is a binary. It needs something called knewstickerstub which I 
don;t have an aren't able to install. Might be able to find it somehow but 
don't really know if I need it.

> Depending on which file is damaged, you might be able to try operating
> without it.
Hmmm  How would I do that?

> I don't have any tools that will do this, although there are some ways we
> might be able to manipulate the manifest to trick LibreOffice into doing it
> for us.
>
> I don't know how to talk you through this.  So it depends on having the
> document to manipulate and either knowing the password or sending
> modifications back to you to see if you can get one of the modifications to
> open far enough to be useful.
>
> So I suppose it comes down to how willing you are to let the document out
> of your hands, even in its encrypted form.
 - Dennis. I am sure you are a most trustworty person, but this document 
cntains very personal information which could even be dangerous to me. That 
is why it is encrypted. I was/am a fairly high ranking officer  in a federal 
law enforcement agency.  I would have to give that some very serious thought.

Bob S

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