Re: Re: Encrypted zipfile support?

--- Manuel Lemos <mlemos@acm.org> wrote: > Hello, > > On 08/09/2004 10:15 PM, Dvdmandt wrote: > > I was wondering if someone with knowledge of the > zipformat could add support > > for enrypted zipfiles. I think that could greatly > improve the use of the > > current zip module. For example, there was a > client a while ago that needed > > confidental data uploaded and then extracted and > parsed. Don't ask me why > > zip, but that was it anyway. Zip support should be > fully supported since > > it's so common under windows. Or is that a > license/patent problem? > > I think you could use the actual zip command instead > and solve your > problem faster. You may also want to try gnupg > instead that does both > encrypion and compression if you want it all in a > single program. I would actually have interest in support for encrypted zip files. We get Zip Code data CDs from the US Postal Service in my office and each of the files on the CD is an encrypted zip file that has to be opened manually with Stuffit Expander (or PKUnzip or WinZip on windows). The unix command line zip program that comes with Mac OS X does not support encrypted zip files. If there is an open source command line zip program that does support encrypted zip files, then I'd be interested in that as well. If there's a library that supports them that can be used with PHP then I would be glad to write an extension to wrap it. - Gabriel =====