[CentOS] zip alternative?

Quoting Jordi Espasa Clofent <jespasac at gmail.com>:

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>> Have you tried gzip or bzip?
> Yes. But both of them doesn't support encryption.

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.

Or if you don't want or can't use public keys (say recipient doesn't  
have one), you could use "gpg -c" instead of "gpg -e" to have thing  
encrypted with symetric cypher using passphrase.  This will be similar  
to the way ZIP works, but harder to break if good passphrase is choosen.