[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 51819] Document occasionally loses password-protection when LibreOffice crashes

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51819

--- Comment #1 from Nidal R <nidalrashid at gmail.com> 2012-07-07 09:55:20 PDT ---

I managed to reproduce this on Ubuntu 12.04 (LibreOffice v3.5.3) by doing the
following steps:

1. Save and close whatever documents you may have open in LibreOffice
2. Open a new document in LibreOffice (Writer, Calc, Draw, or Impress); Enter
some data into it.
3. Save the document with a password in any file-format.
4. Go to Tools>Options; Select the Load/Save>General page of options; Ensure
the entry "Save AutoRecovery information every" is checked and set the
"Minutes" value to 1 minute and press OK.
5. Enter some more data.
6. After waiting for at least 1 minute for the AutoRecovery info to be saved,
open up a terminal and kill soffice.bin
7. Open LibreOffice

Expected behaviour :- LibreOffice Should display the File AutoRecovery Dialog
box. On clicking Next; It should prompt for a password before recovering the
document.

Actual behaviour :- LibreOffice successfully recovers the file without asking
for the password. Furthermore when you save the file, it is saved without a
password.

I tried to reproduce this error on my Windows partition which had LibreOffice v
3.4.1 but couldn't, so I imagine this is a recent regression.

I also wonder whether this implies that the AutoRecovery file is stored
unencrypted on the filesystem, because that would be less than ideal from a
security point of view.

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