Le 20/12/2013 17:46, Rob Weir a écrit :
Thanks for the additional information. But have we seen a
reproducible bug reported in this area?
It reminds me of a police report in the local paper I read a few years
ago. An old lady calls the police to report a stolen ring. She had
just had the interior of her house painted and she thinks the painters
stole the ring. The police ask her for details, including when she
last saw the ring. She says that the last time she saw the ring was
10 years ago. ;-)
Of course, you can see what happened. She only checked for the ring
because there were strangers in the house. But it was probably
misplaced many years ago.
Same thing with an upgrade. When you upgrade you might load a bunch
of old files to see how they render. If something doesn't work you
blame it on the upgrade. But the file might have been damaged
previously.
Of course, I can't prove this, but it would be unlikely to have a
longstanding bug in this area that was not reproducible. But if we
did I'd suspect it would demand on a specific combination of operating
system and the character set used for entering the password, e.g., was
it in Chinese characters, Thai, or something that can be entered in
ASCII or Latin-1. It is probably true that testing in this area is
mainly with the simpler character sets.
No bug report, it doesn't seem to be very reproducible. And the links are not
the most relevant ones. I remember some others that were a bit clearer but
perhaps embedded in other discussions. I'll try to report them here next time I
see this.
Some may also be linked to the hashes problem. There are 1 or 2 topics that
dealt with a power shortage for example. I've not linked them because the root
cause is clearly the crash.
But think about the hashes problem in case of crash (w. or w/o. password): at
the beginning, we could have replied the same as you did. And now we have more
than 150 topics (how many cases not reported???) on several OOo/AOO/LibO
versions on all the OSes).
So, perhaps the problem is not with AOO. But perhaps there is something wrong
and we see only few reports because much less documents are password protected.
We give advises depending on what we see in the forums. Some problems may come
from users but today our personal feeling is that the risk level is not low
enough to not talk about it when asked.
Hagar
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