Alexandre Joly wrote:

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

Yeah, but Tino's question was why you'd want to use zip instead of a  
compressed tarball, because metadata like permissions and ownership  
can't be stored in a zip file (AFAIK). You could also create a tar  
archive and encrypt that, right? Or store the archive on an encrypted  
volume.

Nils Breunese.

> 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.

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