From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 26 19:14:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA12400 for current-outgoing; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 19:14:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA12366 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 19:14:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA17881; Fri, 27 Sep 1996 11:44:26 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199609270214.LAA17881@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Acrobat Reader 3.0 Beta for Linux! (fwd)] To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 11:44:26 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, julian@whistle.com, current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Chuck Robey" at Sep 26, 96 10:08:37 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Chuck Robey stands accused of saying: > > > > (Note that due to the interesting american laws regarding encryption > > technology, the PDF decoding code isn't included in the stock gs release. > > I wonder how Adobe get around this...) > > I'd read that pdf files weren't really encrypted, just compressed (and > called encrypted). Not so? No. From /usr/local/share/ghostscript/4.01/pdf_main.ps (with patch) : % An implementation of an algorithm compatible with the RSA Data Security % Inc. RC4 stream encryption algorithm. I like it; RC4 in postscript. There are some _sick_ people out there 8) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[