Thanks a lot for all the suggestions guys, very appreciated! Have a nice day, Simo
http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ http://www.99soft.org/ On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > On 2011-02-07, Simone Tripodi wrote: > >> do you know is there any way to protect with a password the produced >> zip archive, with [compress] APIs? > > No, compress currently doesn't support any of the various encryption > options of the ZIP format. > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-88 > > Note that different ZIP tools have different understandings on what > "password protected" ZIPs are. The traditional version uses a pretty > weak encryption algo that could be implemented inside compress but > hasn't been (yet?). This most likely is what you are looking for since > it is supported by many of the existing tools. > > Strong encryption is used in different ways by PKWARE and WinZip. The > PKWARE approach comes with legal strings attached that makes it > difficult to implement (if at all possible) inside commons-compress. > The WinZIP approach can certainly be implemented in Java (see Antonio's > link which ultimately leads to <http://code.google.com/p/winzipaes/>) > but isn't widely supported in tools other than WinZIP. > > Stefan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@commons.apache.org
