ODF 1.1: Heads up on Document Crypto

["Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamilton@acm.org>]

David Leblanc is a serious cryptography maven at Microsoft.  
http://blogs.msdn.com/david_leblanc/archive/2008/07/03/office-crypto-follies.aspx
is a great post on the different uses of obfuscation and cryptography for Office documents, from the binaries up to OOXML (I assume he means Office 2007).

There are observations on ODF 1.1 cryptography, related to the maturing understanding of cryptography for Microsoft Office documents, at the end of the blog post.  

 - Dennis

Dennis E. Hamilton
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