pdfcrack description/docs should mention other ways to access pdfs

[Peter Cordes]

Binary package hint: pdfcrack

The pdf encryption key only depends on the user password (and information that is stored in the file, like the hash of the owner pwd.)
e.g. see http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Adobe/Gallery/anon21jul01-pdf-encryption.txt

 If it's not illegal[1], pdfcrack should point out that if you don't need a password to view the pdf, it can be completely decrypted by e.g. pdftk with the password checking commented out. Enforcing the owner password in PDF encryption is entirely optional, in a technical sense. The legal sense is another matter, and even talking about things, let alone distributing software that ignores restrictions, might be illegal in some parts of the world.

 I wish I'd known this; I wouldn't have tried pdfcrack, since I just want to merge some user pass="" PDFs.

[1] DMCA in the US, and all those garbage laws spreading to other countries too.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package pdfcrack - 0.11-3

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pdfcrack (0.11-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New maintainer. Thanks a lot to Nacho Barrientos Arias, the initial
    maintainer, for your nice work over this package. (Closes: #733525)
  * Migrations:
      - debian format from 1.0 to 3.0.
      - debian/copyright to new format (1.0).
      - debian/rules: to new (reduced) format.
      - debhelper version from 7 to 9.
      - Standards-Version from 3.8.3 to 3.9.5.
  * Manpage:
      - Renamed debian/manpages directory to debian/man.
      - Created the debian/manpages file to install the debian/man/pdfcrack.1
        file.
      - debian/man/pdfcrack.1 file:
          - Added a warning about pdfcrack use and local laws. (LP: #224562)
          - Converted the manpage source to txt2man format.
          - Fixed some hyphen-used-as-minus-sign problems.
  * debian/control:
      - Added the VCS fields.
      - Added ${misc:Depends} to Depends field.
      - Little improvements in the long description.
      - Removed 'quilt' from Build-Depends field.
  * debian/docs: added TODO file.
  * debian/gbp.conf: added to allow git-buildpackage usage.
  * debian/install: created to install the pdfcrack final binary.
  * debian/patches/01_drop_strip_calls.diff:
      - Added a header.
      - Added GCC hardening procedures.
      - Renamed to Makefile.
  * debian/README.source: removed because this file is useless now.
  * debian/watch: fixed.

 -- Joao Eriberto Mota Filho <email address hidden> Sat, 18 Jan 2014 17:12:01 -0200