Well, I can see WinZip 11 has support for 128- and 256-bit AES 
encryption. PKZIP, on the other hand, is weak and can be cracked within 
minutes.

My initial question was, anyone ever modified BackupPC in order to 
archive in ZIP format instead of bz2 or gzip?

Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On 04/14 08:22 , Tino Schwarze wrote:
>   
>> Zip encryption is useless. IIRC it's cracked within seconds. 
>>     
>
> I've actually tried cracking a zipfile; and perhaps it had a strong
> password, or the software wasn't very good; but I was unable to crack it
> after a couple of weeks of trying.
>
> Can't say I've done extensive tests; this is only one data point, and the
> plural of anecdote is not data. :)
>
>   

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