Description: Feature suggestion for future versions. It would be nice to, in the settings where you choose a password for the document, to be able to select multiple ciphers in a combobox, offering like: * AES-256 * Twofish * Serpent * Camellia Thank you. Steps to Reproduce: N/A Actual Results: No UI exists for selecting multiple ciphers. Expected Results: Combobox in the "protect document" dialog to choose between multiple ciphers. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: N/A
PS: For both LibreOffice Calc and Writer or anything else that uses it.
Currently we already use AES-256. I'm not sure we need other variants while the AES-256 is good enough.
Please provide use cases for the other ciphers with respect to the existing AES. Where are they used, reasons and benefits for implementing them.
I suppose it's true and I concur AES-256 is good enough. It isn't a "must "or a "need" request. It's more of a "Nice to have" feature. Contextually; well, you'd see multiple ciphers in a software that cares about offering choices and security, e.g VeraCrypt, and indeed those are there. Let's put that in the case/situation of "Document" software. Shouldn't "office users", especially businesses be offered the choice to secure their files more if they want to? Or simply if they don't like using AES? To move away from that, personally, I would like to switch my encrypted documents to Twofish as an example. Feel free to weight the options and if you would consider this something worthwhile doing. Thanks.
To further add to my comment: Since I'm a programmer as well, I'd code it myself and push a pull request. I just don't have time. The feature isn't a lot of work to implement. At most 8 extra functions. (though I admit, granted, testing functions extra and it being moved to the other projects too). --------------------------------- So what I do want to say with this? I'm saying "it's a nice to have that isn't difficult to add to the suite". If you don't consider useful, fair enough.