Hello Julian, on Su 12.12.2010, 21:58 +0000 Julian Gilbey wrote: > I have found a way of reproducing the error - I presume reliably. Thank you very much for analysing this bug.
I looked again at the code and library calls and I think I found now now one reason why the owner password is reported as wrong: pdftk versions from 1.41+dfsg-1 to 1.41+dfsg-9 use a newer version of the itext library (libitext-java package) which sets sadly random owner passwords if only an user password is given to its setEncrpytion routine. The correct way for setting a user password but no owner password would be to set the owner password equal to the user password (this is sensibly prohibited by pdftk) according to the PDF Standard [1]. Since this bug is reported to pdftk version 1.41-2, there must be another encryption issue - but first I need to deal with the annoying random owner password generation. > Files encrypted using pdftk 1.44 do not have this issue. pdftk 1.44 uses again its own bundled itext-paulo library which was DFSG-cleaned and has not the generate random owner password "feature". Best wishes, Johann Felix [1]: http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/pdf/PDFReference16.pdf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
