Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 17:15:44 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: zip with encryption Message-ID: <20040220221544.GB29227@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <200402202134 DOT i1KLYBcC022320 AT kafka DOT net DOT nih DOT gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200402202134.i1KLYBcC022320@kafka.net.nih.gov> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 04:34:10PM -0500, bbuchbinder wrote: >I was wondering if it might be possible to have zip 2.3 re-compiled >with encryption and re-released. Chuck Wilson stated in > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2001/msg00005.html >and > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2002-05/msg00018.html >that it can be done but that first Red Hat needs to inform the U.S. >government that binaries with encryption will be exported. I know >that there are other ways to get encrypted zip files but it would >be convenient if the official Cygwin zip would be encryption-enabled. I don't have any plans to approach our legal people about doing this. They are plenty busy with non-cygwin activities at the moment. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/