View Encrypted PDF in Flex

Hi,
I'm trying to find out how to view an encrypted PDF programmatically in Flex. I would like to be able to do several things:
1) View an encrypted pdf on my local machine and do it by decrypting with the password through ActionScript.
2) Allow for viewing a pdf from a memory stream.
So far, I have been able to view a PDF using the HTMLLoader class, but I don't think this allows me to enter the decryption password for a pdf programmatically. I already have a PDF that was encrypted using Adobe Acrobat's encryption. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
-Aaron

kilyas, I to once thought it would be simple to load pdf's
into flex however there is no easy way to accomplish this task.
Whenever a pdf is loaded acrobat reader is always going to want to
take over the control of this. The one solution that I however did
come up with is by using one of the HTML component renderers within
flex. Something like this
http://www.flexcapacitor.com/htmlcomponent/examples/HTMLFrameInApplication.html
once you have that component loading html urls correctly you can
then set the url straight to the pdf. This will then launch adobe
reader inside of your html component and allow the user to "view a
pdf within flex" kind of... The major flaw I've found with this is
it seems to lag when the browser window containing the flex
application is moved around as well as resized. If anyone has a
better solution though I would also like to hear it.

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