[Python-Dev] Support for Encrypted Zip as python scripts

[Brett Cannon]

There is a standard for encrypting entire zip files. And I was looking at
the zip docs the other day and zipfile can already decrypt but not encrypt
(assuming my memory is accurate; doing this from my phone on vacation).

On Aug 23, 2009 2:10 PM, "Guido van Rossum" <guido at python.org> wrote:

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Shashank Singh<
shashank.sunny.singh at gmail.com> wrote: > There is an...
MvL already asked for a patch so I suppose that means he thinks it's
useful. Personally I've never encountered an encrypted zipfile, so I
just have questions: is there a standard encryption algorithm? What is
encrypted? The entire file or individual members? How are you supposed
to give the password? Also, I suppose there could be (US) export
problems with the code, so it would have to be optional (and we might
not be able to build it into binaries we distribute from python.org).

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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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