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Dutch government says no to backdoors, grants $540k to OpenSSL

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Re: Dutch government says no to backdoors, grants $540k to OpenSSL

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Post by Rubu »

Freak_NL wrote: post #8

I tried to open the (Dutch) DOCX that contains the official position paper of our government, but LibreOffice refuses to open it: File format error found at SAXParseException: '[word/document.xml line 2]: unknown error', Stream 'word/document.xml', Line 2, Column 30060(row,col). http://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/brieven_regering/deta... Great. Usually OOXML Word files at least open in LibreOffice, but this one s…

Perhaps something on your end? LibreOffice (4.2.8.2) doesn't have a problem with the file on my system.

Re: Dutch government says no to backdoors, grants $540k to OpenSSL

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Post by icebraining »

Freak_NL wrote: post #8

I tried to open the (Dutch) DOCX that contains the official position paper of our government, but LibreOffice refuses to open it: File format error found at SAXParseException: '[word/document.xml line 2]: unknown error', Stream 'word/document.xml', Line 2, Column 30060(row,col). http://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/brieven_regering/deta... Great. Usually OOXML Word files at least open in LibreOffice, but this one s…

Works fine for me, but I've made a PDF version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2WvkUwBYadXb3pYVk1pWmIyekk...

Re: Dutch government says no to backdoors, grants $540k to OpenSSL

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Post by tech-no-logical »

Freak_NL wrote: post #8

I tried to open the (Dutch) DOCX that contains the official position paper of our government, but LibreOffice refuses to open it: File format error found at SAXParseException: '[word/document.xml line 2]: unknown error', Stream 'word/document.xml', Line 2, Column 30060(row,col). http://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/brieven_regering/deta... Great. Usually OOXML Word files at least open in LibreOffice, but this one s…

my old libreoffice (Version: 4.2.4.2) opens it fine.

Re: Dutch government says no to backdoors, grants $540k to OpenSSL

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Post by stephenr »

tomp wrote: post #5

This reminds me of the time when NSA offered an encryption algorithm to the public...

i haven't read the article but isn't this the dutch government just giving money to an existing open source project, to use as they see fit to improve/maintain the existing library?

seems ultimately the opposite of what you're talking about.

Re: Dutch government says no to backdoors, grants $540k to OpenSSL

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Post by robin_reala »

Freak_NL wrote: post #8

I tried to open the (Dutch) DOCX that contains the official position paper of our government, but LibreOffice refuses to open it: File format error found at SAXParseException: '[word/document.xml line 2]: unknown error', Stream 'word/document.xml', Line 2, Column 30060(row,col). http://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/brieven_regering/deta... Great. Usually OOXML Word files at least open in LibreOffice, but this one s…

simply post the paper on their website in HTML

This is the UK government advice. Hopefully it’ll percolate through other governments. https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/user-centred-design/choosi...

Re: Dutch government says no to backdoors, grants $540k to OpenSSL

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Post by Freak_NL »

Rubu wrote: post #11
Freak_NL wrote: post #8

I tried to open the (Dutch) DOCX that contains the official position paper of our government, but LibreOffice refuses to open it: File format error found at SAXParseException: '[word/document.xml line 2]: unknown error', Stream 'word/document.xml', Line 2, Column 30060(row,col). http://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/brieven_regering/deta... Great. Usually OOXML Word files at least open in LibreOffice, but this one s…

Perhaps something on your end? LibreOffice (4.2.8.2) doesn't have a problem with the file on my system.

Interesting. This is LibreOffice 5.0.2.2.

Re: Dutch government says no to backdoors, grants $540k to OpenSSL

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Post by Freak_NL »

tech-no-logical wrote: post #13
Freak_NL wrote: post #8

I tried to open the (Dutch) DOCX that contains the official position paper of our government, but LibreOffice refuses to open it: File format error found at SAXParseException: '[word/document.xml line 2]: unknown error', Stream 'word/document.xml', Line 2, Column 30060(row,col). http://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/brieven_regering/deta... Great. Usually OOXML Word files at least open in LibreOffice, but this one s…

my old libreoffice (Version: 4.2.4.2) opens it fine.

I guess it is a bug in LibreOffice 5.0.2.2. This is the default version included with Ubuntu 15.10.

Re: Dutch government says no to backdoors, grants $540k to OpenSSL

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Post by Freak_NL »

icebraining wrote: post #12
Freak_NL wrote: post #8

I tried to open the (Dutch) DOCX that contains the official position paper of our government, but LibreOffice refuses to open it: File format error found at SAXParseException: '[word/document.xml line 2]: unknown error', Stream 'word/document.xml', Line 2, Column 30060(row,col). http://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/brieven_regering/deta... Great. Usually OOXML Word files at least open in LibreOffice, but this one s…

Works fine for me, but I've made a PDF version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2WvkUwBYadXb3pYVk1pWmIyekk...

Much appreciated. :)

Re: Dutch government says no to backdoors, grants $540k to OpenSSL

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Post by synctext »

timwaagh wrote: post #15

'Although the Dutch position is nuanced and firm, the government also has the luxury of not having real impact on the real world' noted.

They actually put money in development of strong encryption, €0.5M. Here are the details from the government ordering to support OpenSSL: https://zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/kst-34300-XIII-10
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