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How do you feel about 7zip's AES encryption functionality for files or sets of files?
by ahelwer 5y ago
How do you feel about 7zip's AES encryption functionality for files or sets of files?
- tptacek 5y agoIt is maddeningly difficult to simply encrypt a file with interoperable tools. I'm optimistic about age, but it's early days. I understand why people want to use 7z for this. The problem is, if anyone else tries to send you an encrypted zip, and they use something other than 7z, they will likely end up using something even worse than Bass-O-Matic; the zip encryption ecosystem is unbelievably horrible, and it's intractably difficult for ordinary people to know what they're getting. So: long story short, I would tell a client "never, ever use encrypted zips".