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PKWare Zips to Growth

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the old-school-compression-algorithms dept.

Rob Kennedy writes "The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has a story about PKWare's new business plan. It talks about the investment group that bought the company after founder Phil Katz's death in 2000, and the plan for PKWare to produce what president and COO Timothy H. Kennedy (no relation) calls 'the next generation of zip' by adding various security features."

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  1. Security?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    So none of you guys can find out whats really in my porn.zip??

    1. Re:Security?? by jasonditz · · Score: 5, Funny

      Just don't make the filename so obvious man,

      C:\ren porn.zip pr0n.zip

      they'll never know

  2. .zip business plan by WhaDaYaKnow · · Score: 2, Funny

    1) replace rot13 with xor
    2) ???
    3) profit!!!

    1. Re:.zip business plan by mesocyclone · · Score: 3, Funny

      Nope!

      3) PATENT

      4) Profit

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  3. Obviously by jki · · Score: 3, Funny
    The company has crafted a new partnership with RSA Security Inc., which will lead to merging zip capability with security features in the same programs. This will build on PKWare's earlier efforts to add features to its own programs allowing the encryption and authentication of files placed in zip archives.

    They need a new name. PKIWare :)

  4. Re:Are zips still relevent? by cmallinson · · Score: 5, Funny
    man tar

    C:\>man tar
    'man' is not recognized as an internal or external xommand, operable program or batch file.

    C:\>
  5. what a business by g4dget · · Score: 5, Funny

    A corporation built on "tar -cf - . | gzip | crypt". And people wonder why TCO for Windows systems is so high.

    1. Re:what a business by SheldonYoung · · Score: 3, Funny

      And in Version 2: New better compression and enhanced security!

      tar cf - . | bzip2 -9 | crypt | crypt

  6. hmm? by Graspee_Leemoor · · Score: 5, Funny

    From the article:

    "Eventually his personal problems caught up with him. Struggling with chronic alcoholism, Katz was estranged from his family and often hung out with strippers. He turned into a recluse, often avoiding his posh Mequon condominium and staying in cheap hotels instead."

    You couldn't pay the trolls on /. to come up with a better paragraph than this.

    graspee

  7. Re:I would really, REALLY... by Meowing · · Score: 2, Funny

    Steam compression has been available for a long time, using a process known as "cooling." Using it, you can fit incredible volumes of of the stuff into a cup and take it with you. Oh, stream. Never mind.

  8. Re:Are zips still relevent? by 91degrees · · Score: 3, Funny

    4. Profit.

    (Sorry, obligatory)

    You're probably right. You know what I mean.

  9. Re:Are zips still relevent? by rot26 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sure star fixes this, whitens your teeth, AND keeps your girlfriend from getting pregnant.

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  10. Compression.. who would have thunk... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Thanks for the clarification, I had always thought the shrinking filesize was a result of PGP using extremely tiny bits.

  11. I love PkWare by CanadaDave · · Score: 4, Funny

    I sure PkWare never goes out of business. I don't know what I'd do without my WinZip and my GNU zip/unzip.