Re: Protected ZIP file with password

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Richard,

     Unfortunately, I can't get out of the zip password rut because the
destination system read only this file format. I can't change the
destination system.

Thanks,
Petrus.

On Feb 18, 2008 2:11 PM, Richard Lynch <ceo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, February 18, 2008 5:59 am, Petrus Bastos wrote:
> >     Thanks again for your worry. So, let's go, here goes my situation.
> > I'm
> > exporting data to another system. That system have an option to be
> > feed by a
> > password protected zip file. The export activity will be occur in this
> > way:
> > the user will generate the file on my application and will put this
> > file
> > into that another system. So, I need generate that file. Maybe one
> > solution
> > is to generate the file unzipped and determine that user should zip
> > the file
> > with password on his Windows or Linux operating system. But, I can't
> > let
> > that responsibility on user hands. So, because that I need to generate
> > the
> > file already protected.
>
> Perhaps you could use SCP (or SSH tunneling) to transfer the file from
> system to system, so that it need not ever be visible to the outside
> world, and thus not need the rather lame zip password.
>
> Another option would be to take the whole file and 2-way encrypt it
> with a public/private key pair, and install the private key on the
> receiving server.
>
> In other words, get out of the zip password rut, and protect the file
> some other way.
>
> --
> Some people have a "gift" link here.
> Know what I want?
> I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist.
> http://cdbaby.com/from/lynch
> Yeah, I get a buck. So?
>
>

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