Re: PDF modifications?

From: Kurt Seifried (bugtraq@seifried.org)
Date: 05/16/02 

From: "Kurt Seifried" <bugtraq@seifried.org>
To: "bad bob" <sfmc68@bellatlantic.net>, "vuln-dev" <vuln-dev@securityfocus.com>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 21:12:44 -0600

PDF encryption is a joke, xpdf/etc will bypass it most trivially. Adobe
makes some tools to modify PDF's and then there's also emacs or your text
editor of choice.

Kurt Seifried, kurt@seifried.org
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----- Original Message -----
From: "bad bob" <sfmc68@bellatlantic.net>
To: "vuln-dev" <vuln-dev@securityfocus.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 7:13 PM
Subject: PDF modifications?

> Aside from screen scrubbers or frame grabbers, are there any tools
> or techniques that can be used to make copies of, and thus modify
> PDF docs?
>
> thanks
> bob
>

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