I've had that suggestion a couple of times now. It is a reasonable thought. I will consider it.
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Michał Dubrawski <michal.dubraw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Ben, > > That's great news :-) I'm really impressed. Reading your emails about what > you have found out abut encryption and how was for me like reading very > interesting detective story. > This thought came to me: if SPSS encryption is so poor, maybe we should > think about better encryption as additional option (working only on PSPP). > It would be an option only for PSPP users, but users of previous versions of > SPSS also cannot read encrypted files with encryption designed by SPSS. The > difference is (if they have a password) they can always get PSPP, open it > and save as non-encrypted file readable for any SPSS version (if they insist > on using it ;-) ). > > warm regards, > Michal > >> >> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 22:55:13 -0700 >> From: Ben Pfaff <b...@cs.stanford.edu> >> To: Basti?n D?az <diaz.bast...@ymail.com> >> Cc: "pspp-users@gnu.org" <pspp-users@gnu.org> >> Subject: Re: encrypted SPSS .sav files >> Message-ID: <20131030055513.ga22...@blp.benpfaff.org> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> >> >> I've now written code that reliably reads an encrypted .sav file, given >> the password. I'm concerned about poor crypto design, so I'm going to >> ask people who are more expert than me to evaluate the design defects >> before I publish the code. >> >> I've also written a program to decode an encoded password to obtain the >> human readable password. (This is much less interesting, but still >> useful for interoperability.) >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pspp-users mailing list >> Pspp-users@gnu.org >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users >> >> >> End of Pspp-users Digest, Vol 89, Issue 28 >> ****************************************** > > _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
