Re: encrypted SPSS .sav files

[Ben Pfaff]

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.