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Date:      Thu, 12 Jun 97 16:10:32 EDT
From:      luoqi@watermarkgroup.com (Luoqi Chen)
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Comment/Suggestion - Adobe Products - Acrobat Reader (fwd)
Message-ID:  <9706122010.AA17059@watermarkgroup.com>

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>> 
>> if ypu want pdf reader, exists xpdf
>
>It does not handle "encryption".  The only purpose of "encryption"
>seems to be to make the thing require an Acrobat reader instead of
>xpdf (or some other third party reader).
>
I have made xpdf to work with encrypted documents. The author also claimed
he had such a version, but didn't release the code because the encryption
algorithm (RC4) was a trade secret. I could post my patch if someone is
interested, but you need to get RC4 code yourself (I got it from some
ftp site outside US, I forgot the address).

-lq

>					Terry Lambert
>					terry@lambert.org
>---
>Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
>or previous employers.




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