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echo: alt-comp-anti-virus
to: PETECRESSWELL
from: MARK LEWIS
date: 2016-02-03 23:19:00
subject: OT: Hiding File Names in

03 Feb 16 06:59, you wrote to All:

 Pe> I use WinZip and 256-bit encryption with some regularity.

 Pe> But there seems to be an omission in it's scheme in that somebody can
 Pe> see the names of the files in the archive even so they do not have the
 Pe> PW needed to extract them.

 Pe> Am I missing something?

yup... the filenames aren't encrypted in ZIP so that they can be properly
extracted... encryption of ZIP files does not mean that the whole archive is
encrypted... only that the data of the files is...

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