[ale] unzipping an encrypted zip file
Geoffrey
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Fri Aug 7 07:07:41 EDT 2009
Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 17:59 -0400, Richard Bronosky wrote:
>> That's an AES Encrypted Zip file http://www.winzip.com/aes_info.htm To
>> my knowledge it is a WinZip only format. Awesome huh?
>
> The page you link to indicates they maintained compatibility with past
> formats and merely added aes-1 and aes-2 to the "compression" types.
> But if that were true, I wouldn't think he would be getting the errors
> he's seeing because the central directory is still in the clear. The
> AES not supported errors are something like "compression type 99 not
> supported" or some such.
>
> In any case, you might try p7zip.
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip/
>
> Caveat... I have not tried it. And I would love to know if that
> works.
>
> Looks like it's in the Debian repositories.
>
> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/p7zip
>
> Fedora and other rpms, it may be available from other sources or you
> may have top build it yourself. I can't access the links to the .rpm's
> at this time.
There is an rpm for both the stock Red Hat 5 and Madriva Powerpack
distros, so I would expect it's available for Fedora as well.
--
Until later, Geoffrey
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