Decrypt encrypted LibreOffice documents with known password
by Michael Uplawski from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4R1SD)
Good morning.
The AES encryption which is apparently used in LibreOffice to protect files with passwords is quite efficient. Not that LibreOffice were the only office-suite which proposes that feature. But as regards OpenDocument files, there is hardly an equivalent for the time.
As AES is now a fairly common algorithm, there are programs and utilities different from LibreOffice which should be able to decrypt a file (content.xml to be exact), when the correct password is provided.
Doing some testing, I cannot figure this out.
Question: Can you?
Request: PSE only answer to this post, if you know where content.xml is found and have a notion of the OpenDocument file-structure. TY.
Background: As indicated, above, there are programs which would be able to read and write ODT, but are currently not supporting encrypted OpenDocument.
... yeah. And, of course, I am generating documents and manipulate them outside any office-suite. Having encryption at my disposal would be cool ( a not more than that, though).
Cheerio.
The AES encryption which is apparently used in LibreOffice to protect files with passwords is quite efficient. Not that LibreOffice were the only office-suite which proposes that feature. But as regards OpenDocument files, there is hardly an equivalent for the time.
As AES is now a fairly common algorithm, there are programs and utilities different from LibreOffice which should be able to decrypt a file (content.xml to be exact), when the correct password is provided.
Doing some testing, I cannot figure this out.
Question: Can you?
Request: PSE only answer to this post, if you know where content.xml is found and have a notion of the OpenDocument file-structure. TY.
Background: As indicated, above, there are programs which would be able to read and write ODT, but are currently not supporting encrypted OpenDocument.
... yeah. And, of course, I am generating documents and manipulate them outside any office-suite. Having encryption at my disposal would be cool ( a not more than that, though).
Cheerio.