RE: How secure are passworded PDFs

[John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>]

Thanks. Andrew. I'll take your issues under advisement.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Plato [mailto:gilliankitty -at- yahoo -dot- com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 4:02 PM
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
Cc: JPosada -at- book -dot- com
Subject: Re: How secure are passworded PDFs


"John Posada" <> wrote 
 
> Hi, guys...my boss is making sounds about having me be the caretaker of
the
> password dictionary.

> So, if I was to make it an ebook and PW it, is it secure under normal
> conditions? (I accept that nothing is secure under abnormal conditions)

As others pointed out PDFs are very crackable. Also, files on your local PC
are
never secured, unless you have something other than just plain old Windows
ACLs. Public folders on an Exchange server are better than nothing, but they
too can be hacked. And firewalls - don't count on them being secure. 


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