digital signature/certificate in open office 2.0

[Tony Nelson]

At 1:07 AM -0700 11/16/05, kwhiskers wrote:

>When I sign a .odt document and save it as a .rtf, then open office says
>document.rtf (signed) in the title bar at the top of the program. When I
>then close open office, then reopen it and reload the signed .rtf, there
>no longer is a signature. When I then try to add the signature back again,
>it says that the document must be saved on .odt format before it can be
>signed. This is an endless loop.

Sounds like a bug in OO.  Perhaps it didn't notice that changing to RTF
unsigned the document.  Probably should report it to the OO team.


>When I open the .rtf file in kwrite (you said rtf is simply a text file
>format), I get a lot of codes with lots of '\'s, some of my text, more
>code, some more text, more code, etc.

That's what RTF looks like.  It has to represent all the formatting
information as text, which it does with lots of \command stuff.

>However, there doesn't appear to be
>any indication that some of that code is my digital signature.

Not finding the signature isn't quite certain, as we don't quite know what
you're looking for and much of the document is hard to read.  Though, from
what happens with re-opening the document, I expect that it isn't there.
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