Tony et al,

I overestimated the implications of the responses. I will wait for MS to
respond.

You may wish to review a discussion of Schneier on Security:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archive...sa_on_how.html.

Thank you for your feedback.

Terence Freedman

"Tony Jollans" wrote:

I don't think I said I was content. I have never used the tool and can't
express content or otherwise

I'm not sure in what way you think the MS AddIn fails to conform - it does
not make the decisions; it is merely an aid in removing what the user
decides to remove, and, as far as I can tell, it is your suggestion which
does not conform to the referenced document. I did say, and do think, that
you have a good point but that is a separate issue.

--
Enjoy,
Tony


"TerenceF" wrote in message
...
Suzanne, Tony and Herb I rejoice that you are content with the product
that
MS alleges is redaction.

It does not conform to NSA's 'Sanitized' view of redaction. I expect the
'redacted' data in the MS Add-in is accessible through value searches and
indexing thus not removed from the document and still avaialble to a keen
enquirer.

Although there is an add-in to 'remove hidden data'

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...4ED-D43E-42CA-
BC7B-5446D34E5360&displaylang=en
there is no contiguous product build.

Is MS going to respond to the NSA model of 'redaction'?

Terence Freedman
The National Archives
London, England

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

No, he's talking about the redaction performed by Microsoft's Redaction
Add-in (for Word 2003 only). See


http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...fd7-67c2-4b51-
8e87-65cc9f30f2ed&DisplayLang=en
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message
...
What are you talking about?

If you're talking about tracking, it's exceedingly useful and
important to
know exactly what was deleted so that a reviewer can assess the impact
and
validity of the deletion.

If you're talking about something else, then perhaps you could be a
bit
more
specific so that others can know exactly what feature (and in what
context)
you're talking about.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
http://www.herbtyson.com
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"TerenceF" wrote in message
...
the redaction process ought to leave no clue as to the origainal
text
length
but ought to indicate missing text by inserting the text
"[REDACTED]".

Block black-out fails to remove the text length clue.

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