On May 18, 2009, at 11:30 AM, Austin Nichols wrote:
But note that zip passwords are not secure. How secure do you need
the data file to be? Who needs access? You might get what you need
from openPGP e.g. http://www.gnupg.org
Just wanted to endorse Austin's suggestion. GnuPG is what you want to
be using if you need to encrypt data files (we use it for that all the
time). Password-protected zip files are both insecure and inconvenient.
-- Phil
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