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

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 behavior is acceptable in my opinion. Should a
user need more protection, (s)he should likely consider full file-system
crypto.

Massimo


2013/12/18 Eric Beversluis <ebever@researchintegration.org>

> 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 something to do with Fed 15 shutting down w/o
> prompting to save an open and changed spreadsheet. When restarted, the
> spreadsheet would open without password protection. The workaround
> seemed to be to do a 'save as' at that point and check 'save with
> password'.
>
> More recently this hasn't seemed to be a problem, but I think it has
> happened once or twice, though I didn't bother to try to figure out why.
>
> On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 09:24 -0500, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
> > 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 somehow considered "unnecessary" by... I don't
> know
> > > who to be honest.
> >
> > You mean recently?As in the latest version of LO has a problem with
> > passwords?
> >
> > > 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 (!!!).
> > Which forum, do you have a link to the post?
> >
> > > 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?
> > Massimo, you seem to be more informed of this than I, but, I am only
> > aware of one (what I consider) real bug that existed with LO and
> > passwords. At one point, I was no longer able to open a password
> > protected file. Specifically, one version of LO was not able to open a
> > password protected file.  I am pretty sure it was LO and not AOO anyway.
> >
> > I believe that I have seen things such as:
> >
> > 1. I forgot my password, how I open my document
> > 2. I am not able to open a password protected document created by MS
> Office
> > 3. Problems signing a document
> >
> > I don't ever remember anyone saying that password protection should be
> > dropped. Does not mean that it has not been said. I have seen people
> > pushing to drop the ability to write non-ODF format, but I don't
> > remember anyone advocating no support for passwords.
> >
> > I have also seen reports of another bug that sometimes causes total data
> > loss of a file, but, since it is not reproducible in any sort of
> > meaningful way, the bug has not been researched.
> >
> > --
> > Andrew Pitonyak
> > My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
> > Info:  http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php
>
>
>
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