password protected zip file?

Fri Sep 16 07:31:50 UTC 2005

On Friday 16 September 2005 04:50, Senectus . wrote:
> How do you make a zip file (or any other archived format that windows
> can open with just XP or winzip installed) that's password protected?

Winzip can open gzipped tar files (and possible bzip2'd tar files as well).

For password protection, use gpg's file encryption, rather than zip -- gpg is 
available in nice gui forms for windows.  ZIP's password protection is 
meaningless.

-- 
Lee Braiden
http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com
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