[Gllug] Encrypted PDF

[Rev Simon Rumble]

This one time, at band camp, Richard Jones wrote:

> Does anyone know if it's possible to crack PDF encryption?  Is it a
> non-serious obfuscation like the passwords on Office documents, or is
> it proper encryption?

Try this:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Adobe/Gallery/

If you have that other OS running, Advanced eBook Processor apparently 
worked on every PDF my bin man has tried it on, he was telling me just 
the other day.  There's a registry hack to insert the key detailed on 
the page.

There's other approaches, including patches to xpdf.

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You might win, but you're still retarded. 
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