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Re: encrypted SPSS .sav files
From: |
Ben Pfaff |
Subject: |
Re: encrypted SPSS .sav files |
Date: |
Tue, 24 Feb 2015 09:15:27 -0800 |
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Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) |
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 06:08:54PM +0100, John Darrington wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 08:17:37AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 02:41:20PM +0000, tylar wrote:
> > > PSPP includes a program that can decrypt an encrypted .sav file.
> > > However, it requires the password.
> >
> > I can't seem to find any documentation on how to use the pspp
> decryption
> > program. Can you provide further info?
>
> There isn't much to it. The pspp-convert program can decrypt; just use
> it according to the documentation
>
> ... but he said he couldn't find any documentation ...
I don't think he knew to look for the pspp-convert program.
In case that wasn't enough: to decrypt an encrypted file "encrypted.sav"
into a plaintext file "plaintext.sav" with pspp-convert, run it like
this:
pspp-convert encrypted.sav plaintext.sav
and then type the password when prompted.