Smiling person, father of two, Husband, Senior Developer/Architect (in that exact order, it's important)
Experience in development since 2004
Linux user and advocate since 2001
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Smiling person, father of two, Husband, Senior Developer/Architect (in that exact order, it's important)
Experience in development since 2004
Linux user and advocate since 2001
Anyway, your way is great if you have a bunch of files protected with the same password, something like medical analysis results that are always secured with a "password" made of your name and birthday.
Which is a poor but still good thing for security in term of global data leaks.
Even if it can be brute forced easily on one file with such known pattern. It would take time on millions of files
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Smiling person, father of two, Husband, Senior Developer/Architect (in that exact order, it's important)
Experience in development since 2004
Linux user and advocate since 2001
I hope I won't be quoted in a security bulletin as the origin of your idea to brute force thousands of password protected documents you had access by error 😅🤣😂
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Except that is a CLI tool, how does it differ from opening it in PDF viewer and use print as PDF ?
It solved my issues for a decade, now.
Didn't think about that possibility.
Thanks, Christophe!
Anyway, your way is great if you have a bunch of files protected with the same password, something like medical analysis results that are always secured with a "password" made of your name and birthday.
Which is a poor but still good thing for security in term of global data leaks.
Even if it can be brute forced easily on one file with such known pattern. It would take time on millions of files
Thank you! Eventually, you gave me an idea for a little personal project to expand these concepts :) :)
I hope I won't be quoted in a security bulletin as the origin of your idea to brute force thousands of password protected documents you had access by error 😅🤣😂
You never know what people can do "for the sake of Science" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂