Re: ZIP Encryption

Eugene Mayevski wrote:
:) This depends on the task. If you want packing, encryption before packing might be ok. If you want compression, that's another story. The thing is that besides TAR there are no widely used packing-only solutions and this leads to a common confusion between packing and compression.

Indeed. However, the operation you refer to as "packing" is more commonly known as "archiving":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_archiver

I haven't heard anyone use "packing" for anything but compression. For instance, the Unix pack utility will perform compression. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packing_%28disambiguation%29
.

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