Can zip task to create a zip archive with password?

[CheeYang Chau <cy...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I have read everything about zip task but find no way to create
password protected zip archive.  Is there possible to do so with zip
task?

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Chau Chee Yang

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Re: Can zip task to create a zip archive with password?

[Steve Loughran <st...@apache.org>]

CheeYang Chau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have read everything about zip task but find no way to create
> password protected zip archive.  Is there possible to do so with zip
> task?
> 

1. no, not yet. You are as usual free to add this feature, the tests and 
the documentation. I fear this would be hard to test, as you would need 
to test against all the main zip implementations. Furthermore, unless 
you use a built in Java Cryptography Extensions crypto engine, Ant would 
have to play more with us export regulations, which scares people.

2. I seem to recall that the standard zip encryption is pretty weak. 
Better to use something like BouncyCastle and encrypt the files rigorously


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