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Is zip's encryption really bad?
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Mar 15, 202621033 viewsConfidence Score0%
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The standard advice for many years regarding compression and encryption has been that the encryption strength of zip is bad. Is this really the case in this day and age? I read this article about WinZip (it has had the same bad reputation). According to that article the problem is removed provided …
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roughly 475,920,314,814,253,000,000,000 possible combinations to brute force
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The weakness of the old encryption was due to the weakness of the chosen encryption algorithm. Nowadays one can use industry grade encryption via 'AES', which is used everywhere (and is under heavy attack but as it seems pretty hard to attack). As t…
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