DocumentProtection Class

Document Editing Restrictions.When the object is serialized out as xml, its qualified name is w:documentProtection.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
  DocumentFormat.OpenXml.OpenXmlElement
    DocumentFormat.OpenXml.OpenXmlLeafElement
      DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.DocumentProtection

Namespace:  DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing
Assembly:  DocumentFormat.OpenXml (in DocumentFormat.OpenXml.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Class DocumentProtection _
    Inherits OpenXmlLeafElement
'Usage
Dim instance As DocumentProtection
public class DocumentProtection : OpenXmlLeafElement

Remarks

[ISO/IEC 29500-1 1st Edition]

17.15.1.29 documentProtection (Document Editing Restrictions)

This element specifies the set of document protection restrictions which have been applied to the contents of a WordprocessingML document. These restrictions should be enforced by applications editing this document when the enforcement attribute is turned on, and ignored (but persisted) otherwise. Document protection is a set of restrictions used to prevent unintentional changes to all or part of a WordprocessingML document. [Note: This protection does not encrypt the document, and malicious applications might circumvent its use. This protection is not intended as a security feature. end note]

If this element is omitted, then no protection shall be applied to this document. When a password is to be hashed and stored in this element, it shall be hashed as defined below, starting from a UTF-16LE encoded string value. If there is a leading BOM character (U+FEFF) in the encoded password it is removed before hash calculation.

Parent Elements

settings (§17.15.1.78)

Attributes

Description

algorithmName (Cryptographic Algorithm Name)

Specifies the specific cryptographic hashing algorithm which shall be used along with the salt attribute and input password in order to compute the hash value.

The following values are reserved:

Value

Algorithm

MD2

Specifies that the MD2 algorithm, as defined by RFC 1319, shall be used.

[Note: It is recommended that applications should avoid using this algorithm to store new hash values, due to publically known breaks. end note]

MD4

Specifies that the MD4 algorithm, as defined by RFC 1320, shall be used.

[Note: It is recommended that applications should avoid using this algorithm to store new hash values, due to publically known breaks. end note]

MD5

Specifies that the MD5 algorithm, as defined by RFC 1321, shall be used.

[Note: It is recommended that applications should avoid using this algorithm to store new hash values, due to publically known breaks. end note]

RIPEMD-128

Specifies that the RIPEMD-128 algorithm, as defined by ISO/IEC 10118-3:2004 shall be used.

[Note: It is recommended that applications should avoid using this algorithm to store new hash values, due to publically known breaks. end note]

RIPEMD-160

Specifies that the RIPEMD-160 algorithm, as defined by ISO/IEC 10118-3:2004 shall be used.

SHA-1

Specifies that the SHA-1 algorithm, as defined by ISO/IEC 10118-3:2004 shall be used.

SHA-256

Specifies that the SHA-256 algorithm, as defined by ISO/IEC 10118-3:2004 shall be used.

SHA-384

Specifies that the SHA-384 algorithm, as defined by ISO/IEC 10118-3:2004 shall be used.

SHA-512

Specifies that the SHA-512 algorithm, as defined by ISO/IEC 10118-3:2004 shall be used.

WHIRLPOOL

Specifies that the WHIRLPOOL algorithm, as defined by ISO/IEC 10118-3:2004 shall be used.

[Example: Consider an Office Open XML document with the following information stored in one of its protection elements:

< … algorithmName="SHA-1"
hashValue="9oN7nWkCAyEZib1RomSJTjmPpCY=" />

The algorithmName attribute value of “SHA-1” specifies that the SHA-1 hashing algorithm must be used to generate a hash from the user-defined password. end example]

The possible values for this attribute are defined by the ST_String simple type (§22.9.2.13).

edit (Document Editing Restrictions)

Specifies the set of editing restrictions which shall be enforced on a given WordprocessingML document, as defined by the simple type referenced below

If this attribute is omitted, the consumer shall behave as though there are no editing restrictions applied to this document; equivalent to an attribute value of none.

[Example: Consider a WordprocessingML document that contains the following WordprocessingML specifying that hosting applications must enforce read-only protection for a given document:

<w:documentProtection w:edit="readOnly" w:enforcement="1" />

The edit attribute has a value of readOnly and a enforcement attribute with a value of 1, specifying that read-only document protection must be enforced on the given document. end example]

The possible values for this attribute are defined by the ST_DocProtect simple type (§17.18.18).

enforcement (Enforce Document Protection Settings)

Specifies if the document protection settings shall be enforced for a given WordprocessingML document. If the value of this element is off, 0, or false, all the WordprocessingML pertaining to document protection is still preserved in the document, but is not enforced. If the value of this element is on, 1, or true, the document protection is enforced.

If this attribute is omitted, then document protection settings shall not be enforced by applications.

[Example: Consider a WordprocessingML document that contains the following WordprocessingML specifying that hosting applications must apply read-only protection for a given document:

<w:documentProtection w:edit="readOnly" w:enforcement="1" />

The enforcement attribute has a value of 1, specifying that the document protection specified must be enforced on the given document. end example]

The possible values for this attribute are defined by the ST_OnOff simple type (§22.9.2.7).

formatting (Only Allow Formatting With Unlocked Styles)

Specifies if formatting restrictions are in effect for a given WordprocessingML document. This enables the document to restrict the types of styles that can exist in a given WordprocessingML document. Specifically, by setting this attribute's value equal to true, every style whose locked element (§17.7.4.7) has a value of true (or latent styles (§17.7.4.5) whose locked attribute is true) shall not be available for use in the application, nor should any direct formatting. Only styles with a locked value of false can be used.

If this attribute is omitted, then no formatting restrictions shall be applied, even when document protection is enforced.

[Example: Consider a WordprocessingML document that must apply formatting protection. This requirement would be specified using the following WordprocessingML in the document settings:

<w:documentProtection w:formatting="true" w:enforcement="true" /> 

If the following definition for a style was also present in the document:

<w:style w:type="paragraph" w:styleId="Heading1">
  <w:name w:val="heading 1" /> 
  <w:locked w:val="1" /> 
  …
</w:style>

The formatting attribute has a value of true specifying that the applications must not allow the style above to be added to the WordprocessingML document. This does not preclude previous uses of that style (which must not be removed), but does prevent new uses of this style from being added. end example]

The possible values for this attribute are defined by the ST_OnOff simple type (§22.9.2.7).

hashValue (Password Hash Value)

Specifies the hash value for the password stored with this document. This value shall be compared with the resulting hash value after hashing the user-supplied password using the algorithm specified by the preceding attributes and parent XML element, and if the two values match, the protection shall no longer be enforced.

If this value is omitted, then the reservationPassword attribute shall contain the password hash for the workbook.

[Example: Consider an Office Open XML document with the following information stored in one of its protection elements:

<… AlgorithmName="SHA-1"
hashValue="9oN7nWkCAyEZib1RomSJTjmPpCY=" />

The hashValue attribute value of 9oN7nWkCAyEZib1RomSJTjmPpCY= specifies that the user-supplied password must be hashed using the pre-processing defined by the parent element (if any) followed by the SHA-1 algorithm (specified via the algorithmName attribute value of SHA-1) and that the resulting has value must be 9oN7nWkCAyEZib1RomSJTjmPpCY= for the protection to be disabled. end example]

The possible values for this attribute are defined by the W3C XML Schema base64Binary datatype.

saltValue (Salt Value for Password Verifier)

Specifies the salt which was prepended to the user-supplied password before it was hashed using the hashing algorithm defined by the preceding attribute values to generate the hashValue attribute, and which shall also be prepended to the user-supplied password before attempting to generate a hash value for comparison. A salt is a random string which is added to a user-supplied password before it is hashed in order to prevent a malicious party from pre-calculating all possible password/hash combinations and simply using those pre-calculated values (often referred to as a "dictionary attack").

If this attribute is omitted, then no salt shall be prepended to the user-supplied password before it is hashed for comparison with the stored hash value.

[Example: Consider an Office Open XML document with the following information stored in one of its protection elements:

<… saltValue="ZUdHa+D8F/OAKP3I7ssUnQ=="
hashValue="9oN7nWkCAyEZib1RomSJTjmPpCY=" />

The saltValue attribute value of ZUdHa+D8F/OAKP3I7ssUnQ== specifies that the user-supplied password must have this value prepended before it is run through the specified hashing algorithm to generate a resulting hash value for comparison. end example]

The possible values for this attribute are defined by the W3C XML Schema base64Binary datatype.

spinCount (Iterations to Run Hashing Algorithm)

Specifies the number of times the hashing function shall be iteratively run (runs using each iteration's result plus a 4 byte value (0-based, little endian) containing the number of the iteration as the input for the next iteration) when attempting to compare a user-supplied password with the value stored in the hashValue attribute.

[Rationale: Running the algorithm many times increases the cost of exhaustive search attacks correspondingly. Storing this value allows for the number of iterations to be increased over time to accommodate faster hardware (and hence the ability to run more iterations in less time). end rationale]

[Example: Consider an Office Open XML document with the following information stored in one of its protection elements:

<… spinCount="100000"
hashValue="9oN7nWkCAyEZib1RomSJTjmPpCY=" />

The spinCount attribute value of 100000 specifies that the hashing function must be run one hundred thousand times to generate a hash value for comparison with the hashValue attribute. end example]

The possible values for this attribute are defined by the ST_DecimalNumber simple type (§17.18.10).

[Note: The W3C XML Schema definition of this element’s content model (CT_DocProtect) is located in §A.1. end note]

© ISO/IEC29500: 2008.

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

See Also

Reference

DocumentProtection Members

DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing Namespace