BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Archive encrypted zip

2008-04-15 10:24:55
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Archive encrypted zip
From: Tino Schwarze <backuppc.lists AT tisc DOT de>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:24:39 +0200
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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