This is a requirement here at my company to have encrypted archives for 
off-site backup.

Tino Schwarze wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:18:50AM -0400, Alexandre Joly wrote:
>   
>> 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?
>>     
>
> Why would you want to do that? You loose lots of meta information by
> going to ZIP instead of tar.gz. Compression is inferior and every
> decent archive browser tool should support .tar.gz anyway.
>
> Bye,
>
> Tino.
>
>   

-- 
Alexandre Joly <aj AT infodev DOT ca>
Network Administrator
Infodev Electronic Designers Intl
(418) 681-3539 ext. 153


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