digital signature/certificate in open office 2.0

[Tony Nelson]

At 7:24 PM -0700 11/15/05, kwhiskers wrote:

>I noticed something I hadn't noticed last night:
>
>I was just about to do what you suggested, but I decided to try saving a
>.doc of my document, which I did. Then I wanted to sign it, but a message
>appeared, stating that one must first save in .odt to sign.
>
>Apparently, it is not possible to sign a .doc.
>
>However, I just saved a .rtf of my document, and lo and behold, it is
>signed. I do not know whether the signature will appear in Windows.
>
>Curiously, only .odt and .rtf can be signed, but not .doc!

RTF is a very versitile format.  Many things can be written, not all can be
read by MSWord (or perhaps even oowriter).  You might want to see if
oowriter can read that signed .rtf file.
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