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PKWare and Winzip Reach A Secure Zip Compromise

Posted by Hemos on from the kind-of-working-together.-sort-of dept.

richard_za writes "Until now the rival compression software vendors PKWare and Winzip have had different (incompatible) ways of password protecting the ZIP format. In a bid to prevent fragmentation of the standard they have agreed to have their software support opening of the other's files. They have however not agreed to support a single standard. PKZip's encryption is RSA-based while Winzip use an AES approach which is fully documented here. The Register is running this story. PKWare has this press release."

4 of 219 comments (clear)

  1. First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This first post accomplished for nerds everywhere.

  2. Why communism? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Because it'll work this time. The failures, which were very few in number, were exceptional oddities and will not happen next time. Be faithful, comrades.

  3. Meh.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    WinRAR, need i say more?

  4. Re:Who's running PKWare by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Here's a brief history of Phil Katz

    It's the wrong Katz that died : Phil Katz' death is a loss, while John Katz' death on the other hand wouldn't have made me cry ...

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