[Libreoffice] [PATCH/REVIEW-3-4] Backport reading AES-encrypted ODF 1.2 documents (as genereated by LibO 3.5)

Stephan Bergmann sbergman at redhat.com
Fri Nov 18 02:28:08 PST 2011


On 11/17/2011 10:37 PM, Cor Nouws wrote:
> Stephan Bergmann wrote (17-11-11 09:02)
>>> On 11/11/2011 11:12 AM, Cor Nouws wrote:
>
>>>> Is included in the patch, that when a encrypted document is opened in
>>>> 3.4.n and saved again, people are informed about the change in
>>>> encryption?
>>>
>>> No.
>>
>> I see. When you modify and save an encrypted document, you are not asked
>> for the password again, So to the user that does not appear like a "save
>> afresh as an encrypted document" (in which case I would consider it
>> plausible that the document is silently saved with the 3.4 encryption
>> mechanism) but more like a plain "update existing stored document."
>
> Thanks for this clarification. Even better this way.

Not sure we're not talking past each other here.  My clarification is 
meant to clarify that yes, the patch leaves us with a somewhat 
unfortunate result.

> (I was already thinking of a clear message for the release notes, but
> that's superfluous now.)

You mean, superfluous to think of a clear message yourself, or 
superfluous to include a message in the release notes?

Stephan


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