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- This is the Info-ZIP README.CR for zcrypt27.zip, last updated 28 Mar 97.
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- The files described below contain the encryption code for Zip 2.2 and
- UnZip 5.3 (and later). They constitute only an add-on to the exportable
- versions (generally named zip22.zip and unzip53.tar.Z) and cannot be
- used without the complete Zip or UnZip packages.
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- This encryption code is not copyrighted and is put in the public domain.
- It was originally written in Europe and can be freely distributed from
- any country except the U.S.A. If this code is imported into the US, it
- cannot be re-exported from the US to another country. (This restriction
- might seem curious but this is what US law requires.) However, Phil Katz
- has said that he got an export license for his algorithm, so this hassle
- of separate distribution may cease one day.
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- LIKE ANYTHING ELSE THAT'S FREE, ZIP, UNZIP AND THEIR ASSOCIATED UTILITIES
- ARE PROVIDED AS IS AND COME WITH NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED
- OR IMPLIED. IN NO EVENT WILL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES
- RESULTING FROM THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
-
- The encryption code is a direct transcription of the algorithm from
- Roger Schlafly, described by Phil Katz in the file appnote.txt. This
- file is distributed with the PKZIP program (even in the version without
- encryption capabilities). Note that the encryption will probably resist
- attacks by amateurs if the password is well chosen and long enough (at
- least 8 characters) but it will probably not resist attacks by experts.
- Paul Kocher has made available information concerning a known-plaintext
- attack for the PKWARE encryption scheme; see http://www.cryptography.com/
- for details.) Short passwords consisting of lowercase letters only can be
- recovered in a few hours on any workstation. But for casual cryptography
- designed to keep your mother from reading your mail, it's OK.
-
- For more serious encryption, check into PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), a
- public-key-based encryption system available from various Internet sites.
- PGP has Zip and UnZip built into it. The most recent version at the time
- this was written was 2.6.2 (and 2.6.3i for non-US users).
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- Zip 2.2 and UnZip 5.3 are compatible with PKZIP 2.04g. (Thanks to Phil
- Katz for accepting our suggested minor changes to the zipfile format.)
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- IMPORTANT NOTE:
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- Zip archives produced by Zip 2.0 (or later) must not be *updated* by
- Zip 1.1 or PKZIP 1.10 or PKZIP 1.93a, if they contain encrypted members
- or if they have been produced in a pipe or on a non-seekable device.
- The old versions of Zip or PKZIP would destroy the zip structure. The
- old versions can list the contents of the zipfile but cannot extract
- it anyway (because of the new compression algorithm). If you do not
- use encryption and use regular disk files, you need not worry about
- this problem.
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- Contents:
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- file what it is
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- README.CR this file
- Where where Zip/UnZip and related utilities can be found
- crypt.c code for encryption and decryption (for Zip and UnZip)
- crypt.h code for encryption and decryption (for Zip and UnZip)
- file_id.diz description file for some BBSes
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- All of the files are in Unix (LF only) format. On MSDOS systems, you
- can use the -a option of UnZip to convert the source files to CRLF
- format. This is only necessary if you wish to edit the files -- they
- will compile as is with Microsoft C and Turbo/Borland C++ 1.0 or
- later. However, you will have to convert the files (using "unzip -a")
- to the CRLF format to compile with the older Turbo C 1.0 or 2.0. You
- should be able to find Zip and UnZip in the same place you found this
- (see http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/ or the file "Where" for details).
-