digital signature/certificate in open office 2.0

kwhiskers kwhiskers at gmail.com
Tue Nov 15 07:41:19 UTC 2005


On 14/11/05, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 18:26 -0700, kwhiskers wrote:
> > To use a digital certificate in Open Office 2.0, you must import it
> > into firefox.
> >
> > Then addto ~/.bash_profile:
> >
> > export
> >
> MOZILLA_CERTIFICATE_FOLDER=/home/myname/.mozilla/firefox/blah234blah234blah.default
> >
> > Now, when you run open office, you can choose the certificate with
> > which to sign a document.
> >
> > I wish someone had simply stated that 3 weeks ago.
> ----
> thanks for the pioneering effort. Perhaps you might want to make it easy
> for the next person by clearly explaining the entire process right from
> creating the certificate, then importing it into firefox, exporting it
> and then signing a document with oowriter/etc.
>
> Craig
>
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Sure thing. I will do it in the course of tomorrow.
One little problem I noticed is that when I just converted my signed
document.odt to a MSWord.doc, the document converted just fine, but booting
into vmware with WinXP and OfficeXP running, I could open the document, but
was not able to detect any signature. Admittedly, I don't know MSOffice very
well.
The reason I wanted to sign a document so badly is that I wanted to submit
an assignment and 'sign' my work, but I know that the university only
accepts one specific closed format. Bummer.
Sending the document as a open document text file (odt), I would presume
that the signature wouldbe intact. I know I can see it, and would hope it is
visible to others not using my computer.
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