[CentOS] zip alternative?

Aleksandar Milivojevic alex at milivojevic.org
Tue Jan 2 19:31:13 UTC 2007


Quoting Aleksandar Milivojevic <alex at milivojevic.org>:

> Unless something changed in recent years, "encryption" in ZIP files is
> trivial to break.  As alternative to ZIP, you can always "tar xzf -
> infile1 infile2 infile3 | gpg -e -r blah at foobar.com >
> outfile.tar.gz.gpg" and have both decent comperssion and decent
> encryption.

Ooops.  Typo.  Should be "tar czf - ..." of course (which is shorthand  
for tar cf - | gzip -c" if your tar doesn't have "z" option).





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