[liberationtech] Metadata Cleanup trough File Format Convertion?

[Bruce Potter at IRF]

Maybe this would help --

On the Mac platform, Lemkesoft's GraphicConverter is one of the oldest and most versatile graphic media format conversion programs (AND a good photo editor) -- it currently works with 60+ formats and explicitly allows removing OR modifying METADATA in batch mode.

www.lemkesoft.com
or write to the author, Thorsten Lemke at support at lemkesoft.com

There are a dozen or more language versions of GraphicConverter -- it's modestly priced.

bruce

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On Jul 17, 2013, at 12:28 PM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) <lists at infosecurity.ch> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> i've been thinking about the topic of metadata cleanup of files from an implementation point of view.
> 
> Regardless the consideration whether it's something useful or not for a Whistleblowing platform (GlobaLeaks), i've been considering whenever the "Metadata Cleanup" can't be approached by "File Format Conversion".
> 
> If i'd like to remove metadata from various documents formats (pdf, word, ppt, excel, etc) or image file, i've been thinking that rather then "explicitly removing metadata" a possible different approach would be by doing a "file convertion" .
> 
> If a JPEG is converted to PNG, "maybe" all metadatas are lost. (this has to be verified)
> If a DOC/DOCX is converted to a PDF, maybe all metadatas are lost.
> 
> At GlobaLeaks we've been discussing about introducing "metadata cleanup" [1] , but also a "file sterilization" [2] with the goal to protect Receivers of a Whistleblowing site against targeted 0day attacks.
> 
> Should we approach "metadata cleanup" by doing the "file sterilization" processing trough existing Libreoffice convertion API [3] to save engineering effort/time?
> 
> 
> [1] Metadata Cleanup https://github.com/globaleaks/GlobaLeaks/issues/305
> [2] File Sterilization https://github.com/globaleaks/GlobaLeaks/issues/270
> [3] Libreoffice Convertion API https://github.com/dagwieers/unoconv
> 
> -- 
> Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
> HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights
> http://logioshermes.org - http://globaleaks.org - http://tor2web.org
> 
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