66.14 PDF Password Unlock
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Documents can be encrypted with a user (aka open) password for privacy and security. A user password encrypted pdf document can be decrypted to an unencrypted pdf using:
An alternative is qpdf from the qpdf package which will work on some encryption types that are unknown to pdftk:
Documents might also have an owner (aka master or permissions) password.
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