Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 11:44:26 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, julian@whistle.com, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: Acrobat Reader 3.0 Beta for Linux! (fwd)] Message-ID: <199609270214.LAA17881@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.960926220755.13055D-100000@skipper.eng.umd.edu> from "Chuck Robey" at Sep 26, 96 10:08:37 pm
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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 [[
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