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Chapter 9: Advanced Techniques
Protecting Records
Changes made in a document can be recorded by choosing either Edit > Changes > Record
or Edit > Changes > Protect Records. If Protect Records is selected, one must enter the
correct password in order to turn off the function or accept or reject changes.
1. Select Protect Records. This opens the Password dialogue.
2. Enter a password consisting of at least 5 characters and confirm it.
3. Click OK.
Digital Signatures and Encryption
1
Overview
Use of Digital signatures in OpenOffice.org is new to with OpenOffice.org 2.0 and is
relatively new in other office applications. Nonetheless,, the requirement to protect data from
being modified has existed for a long time.
While OpenOffice.org 1.1.x offered protection for documents with encryption and
passwords, digital signatures offer enhanced secure protection of document content, both
inside OpenOffice.org 2.0 and externally.
Another aspect of using digital signatures, is for ensuring Macro security. This can be a very
important topic because when user accesses a document containing macros or receives them
via email, the user cannot know if these can be trusted or whether they may harm the system.
Being that there is no easy way to determine whether a macro is harmful; the decision
whether to trust a macro or not to trust must be based on the trustworthiness of the macro
author. Unfortunately, one cannot know that the macro really comes from the author or that it
has not been modified by somebody else. Digital certificates and signatures are the solution.
Authors can sign the macro with a private key and user can then verify the signature with the
author's public keys. An added benefit of using digital signatures is the assurance that the
content has not been modified.
Certificates
How to get a Certificate?
There are really only two ways to get a certificate. One, to create one for oneself or,
secondly, to obtain one from a trusted signing authority.
1 Specification -- http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/security/Electronic_Signatures_and_Security.sxw
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