Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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."

2 of 310 comments (clear)

  1. hate to see winzip stole the show by didiken · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yea would love to see pkware regain the old glory at the BBS days. Still remember typing dos prompt "pkunzip" with those myraid options.

    Really hate to see Winzip stole all the limelight over pkware. Hats off to Phil Katz.

  2. Is this really going to make an impact?... by GnomeKing · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I have to ask, how much of an impact is this new development going to make?

    Encryption with .zip files is already possible - look at powerarchiver as a simple example...
    Sure, its not standard, but you can do it very easily within a windows environment already - and a *nix version would be even easier to implement

    Since applications which take a file and encrypt it are readily available, I have to question whether combining the two things into one is going to help much...

    I feel that proper encryption of zip files will follow a very similar path to that of tar and gzip - if atall