Laurent Oget on Thu, 2 Aug 2001 07:44:53 +0200 (CEST) |
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[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> empire pdf (pdf empire) |
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 11:23:52PM -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > At 11:32 AM -0400 on 8/1/01, Laurent Oget wrote: > > > > It is an ENCRYPTED PDF document > > > No, once again, (and in a lower tone of voice :-)), the document in > question, a PDF version of "Empire", was just a PDF document. > whose 'file info' is, as the original poster mentioned: Security Method: Acrobat Standard Security User Password: No Master Password: Yes Printing: Not Allowed Content Copying or Extraction: Not Allowed Authoring Comments and Form Fields: Not Allowed Form Field-Fill-in or Signing: Not Allowed Content Accessibility Enabled: Not Allowed Document Assembly: Not Allowed Encryption Level: 40-bit RC4 (Acrobat 3.x, 4.x) > If you have a PDF reader, and, like I said, there are *other* pdf readers > out there besides Adobe's, even in open-source form, and free-as-in-beer or > free-as-in-speech, I expect, and, if you want, you can read it withh one of > those. > > In fact, someone *here* just converted it to text, right? I'm not a > gambling man, bit I would bet, if I were, that *they* converted it without > recourse to Adobe software. > sebastian did. if you read his mail, which mention a decrypted PDF version at http://excsess4all.com, you might suspect that he used the pdf password recovery software from elcomsoft. > > Again, the current cryptographer-in-jail flap is about the *e-book* > software, that Adobe has put out, which is different from PDF. > so you think. adobe did not come up with two different ways to de-free text. > Same thing, but different. Apples and Oranges, or whatever. > be it an apple or an orange that you put in the adobe steel box, you won't be able to eat it. _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold