Re: encrypted SPSS .sav files

[Tylar Murray]

Thanks, you're exactly right; I didn't realize pspp-convert was what I needed. 

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Ben Pfaff <address@hidden> wrote:

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.