Re: [libreoffice-users] State of password support.

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.  Personally i avoid
password protecting files and just keep such files well out of reach
of anyone that wouldn't be authorised to see them.  Emails and
usb-sticks make that tricky though!

Early on i noticed that MS Office password-protected files could
easily be opened in LibreOffice.  In fact i didn't even realise my
companies finance files were individually password protected until
after i had opened them and the finance director saw i had the file
open and went ashen-faced.  I've been told it happens the other way
around too, that LibreOffice or OpenOffice files that are password
protected can be easily opened in MS Office but i've never tried it
out.

Password protection is good to prevent causal accidental intrusion
from polite colleagues but it's not reliable enough on it's own.
Given enough time any password can be cracked.  So, password
protection is best when used in combination with other security
measures, such as [shudders] encryption, or just keeping the files out
of reach (if that is at all possible these days).

All security is often at the expense of productivity and security
measures tend to restrict valid personnel from legitimate work rather
than slowing down hackers/crackers.  So, take care!

Regards from
Tom :)



On 17 December 2013 15:12, Massimo Del Zotto <massimodz8@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 a
> while to restore it. Asking for help on OOo forum, I have been informed
> password protection is somehow considered "unnecessary" by... I don't know
> who to be honest.
> The important point is that I have been informed of various issues OOo
> seems to have with password protection. The forum administrator strongly
> suggested me to not use it, and even pointed out a few previous cases in
> which password protection caused data loss (!!!).
> I think *this is unacceptable *so I started looking more seriously at LO.
> Digging the mailing list archives, I noticed there are quite a few messages
> regarding password protection. It seems most problem were between keyboard
> and chair, the only exception being perhaps an inter-operability problem
> after switching to AES-256.
>
> In your experience, how is LO with password protection?
>
> Thank you,
> Massimo
>
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