[Tutor] Adding support for password protection to zipfile (long)

[Charlie Clark]

On 2003-05-16 at 19:19:15 [+0200], you wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been following your Zip decryption adventure on the list.  I did 
> some poking around and came up with
> http://www.pkware.com/products/enterprise/white_papers/appnote.html#8 
> which has a pretty good explanation of the decryption process.  The 
> algorithm is given in psuedocode which is much easier, imho, to port to 
> python than C is.

Thanx Greg,

I've even discovered that someone else beat me to it: there is a patch for 
zipfile.py on Sourceforge von Giovanni Bajo but it hasn't been accepted 
yet. Seeing as I hate reinventing the wheel I'm testing it for him!

Charlie