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Jun
10
The Zip Standard
InfoWorld: The .zip standard splinters: PKZip and WinZip are arguing about the .zip format. They’re going to fork the standard, it appears.
“The .zip format couldn’t stay the same forever. For one thing, it desperately needed adequate encryption. The long-established .zip 2.04g specification’s password protection couldn’t stop a reasonably knowledgeable hacker.”
Be safe, use TAR.
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Zip Standard Forks
Is Zip coming undone?: We wrote about this before, but the dispute between WinZip and PKZip seems to have boiled over into a standards war. The protocol has been forked and we're all worse off because of it. "Both programs use the basic .zip file extension to designate both secure…
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