Re: Winzip Encryption

["Marc-André Laverdière" <marcandre.laverdiere () gmail com>]

Hi folks,

I suggest you switch to 7-zip. AES encryption is built-in and you can
always audit the code if you need.

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Brenno J.S.A.A.F. de Winter, WGASA
<brenno () dewinter com> wrote:
> Hi Wang,
>
> Aren't this two things? One is the quality of the password (that the
> cracker cracks) and the quality of the encryption. When people create a
> bad password you're lost no matter how strong the encryption is, since
> it is (part of) the key.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brenno
> acwang0048 () gmail com schreef:
> > Hi,
> >
> > People told me that the latest version of winzip has AES encryption to protect files and should be much safer than 
> > its eariler version like v8.
> >
> > However, when I tested it with password cracker products like "archpr", I can easily get the password. So why it 
> > claims using AES in the latest version when it is that easy to find a way to retrteive documents inside winzip!
> >
> > Well, anyone has any good suggestions for a safe way to send out compressed documents?
> >
> > Many Thanks,
> > Wang
>
>
> --



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