[ale] unzipping an encrypted zip file

[Geoffrey]

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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