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diff --git a/manual/qpdf-manual.xml b/manual/qpdf-manual.xml index 8c133bce..c74706c2 100644 --- a/manual/qpdf-manual.xml +++ b/manual/qpdf-manual.xml @@ -3761,16 +3761,6 @@ outfile.pdf</option> password-protected files. QPDF does not enforce encryption parameters and will treat user and owner passwords equivalently. Either password may be used to access an encrypted file. - <footnote> - <para> - As pointed out earlier, the intention is not for qpdf to be used - to bypass security on files. but as any open source PDF consumer - may be easily modified to bypass basic PDF document security, - and qpdf offers may transformations that can do this as well, - there seems to be little point in the added complexity of - conditionally enforcing document security. - </para> - </footnote> <classname>QPDF</classname> will allow recovery of a user password given an owner password. The input PDF file must be seekable. (Output files written by <classname>QPDFWriter</classname> need |