Issue 9643

Summary:

document locking features

Product:

Writer

Reporter:

floeff+ooo

Component:

code

Assignee:

frank.loehmann

Status:

CLOSED WONT_FIX

QA Contact:

issues@sw <issues>

Severity:

Trivial

Priority:

CC:

issues, oooqa

Version:

OOo 1.0.1

Keywords:

oooqa

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

Other

OS:

Other OS

Issue Type:

ENHANCEMENT

Latest Confirmation in:

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Developer Difficulty:

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Attachments:

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Description floeff+ooo 2002-11-28 15:42:28 UTC

I would like to see more "document locking features" integrated

Sometimes, you have documents, that

 I. should not be modified (view only)
 II. should not be printed
 III. should not be copied to clipboard
 IV. should expire after some time
 V. should have different passwords for view-only and editing mode
 VI. have non-editable macros

In all these cases, you have to distribute them as PDF in order to achieve this
security. I would like to see that incorporated in OO. The documents should be
encrypted as in PDF, whenever such a feature is set.

Comment 1 prgmgr 2002-11-29 05:41:09 UTC

Florian, thank you for using and supporting OOo.

Marking as a feature request.

Comment 2 Joost Andrae 2002-11-30 14:36:14 UTC

JA->FT: reassigned as RFE

Comment 3 floeff+ooo 2002-12-09 14:17:44 UTC

Created attachment 3985 [details]
document information; red area = please blank by default

Comment 4 floeff+ooo 2002-12-09 14:20:19 UTC

Sorry, posted the attachment to the wrong issue. Any idea on how to
remove it? :)

Comment 5 floeff+ooo 2003-01-11 12:11:24 UTC

Already any information whether this is fixed in the new release or not?

Comment 6 floeff+ooo 2003-03-26 17:09:30 UTC

Hello? Any news?

Comment 7 falko.tesch 2003-03-27 14:53:40 UTC

Yes, there are some.
I actually understand your desire but nevertheless your request is
very hard to implement.
Since OO uses XML (zipped) as its doc-format content (text) is always
accessible.
The only easy mechnismn to protect this content is to protect the
whole archive (aka zipped XML).
I. view only is achievable through file system protection
II. - V. These are very special features that IMHO reserved for a
special app like Adobe.
VI. That is possible.

MHU: Do you have any remarks on this?

Comment 8 floeff+ooo 2003-03-27 14:56:44 UTC

I'd suggest you compress and encrypt the XML content if "locking" is
desired, so reading by extracting is not possible anymore :)

Comment 9 matthias.huetsch 2003-04-06 17:20:20 UTC

Hi Florian, Falko,

Well, yes, I have some comments:

1) Encryption at the (zip-) package (*.sxw, ...) is already possible,
   so Falko's comment '...text is always accessible...' is not
   exactly true.
   The normal 'password protection' uses this encryption when
   requested by the user. So what's missing is automatic encryption
   when certain features are present.

2) Most of Florian's special features could become possible with some
   document signing features which are currently evaluated for
   OOo 2.0 or later (Falko, please ask MMP about this).

3) Clearly this belongs into the 'Enhancement' category, and much of
   UI review and design is needed. So I'm reassigning back to Falko,
   who takes care of such things.

Hope that helps,
Matthias

Comment 10 matthias.huetsch 2003-04-06 17:23:35 UTC

Adding tentative target milestone 'OOo 2.0', but could be 'OOo Later',
as well.

Comment 11 falko.tesch 2003-10-15 13:29:37 UTC

FT->MMP: Please see comments from Matthias HÃ¼tsch. Thx.

Comment 12 matthias.mueller-prove 2003-11-05 19:04:07 UTC

I suppose this one belongs on your security zone.

Comment 13 michael.ruess 2008-05-07 09:58:11 UTC

*** Issue 89088 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

Comment 14 floeff+ooo 2009-06-13 21:24:15 UTC

Doesn't seem to fit very well into the idea of an open document format. ;-)
Closing this very old one...

Comment 15 Mechtilde 2009-07-12 18:59:05 UTC

wontfixed -> closed