I'm looking for the encryption that Windows XP provides for ZIP files. I believe it's the old, lame, encryption. Is that correct? Right now I'm working with http://sevenzipjbind.sourceforge.net/ and it fits the bill but is a bit clunky. Is that something that could be accepted into ASF?
As always, thanks for your input! On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 2:57 AM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > On 2013-11-29, dam6923 . wrote: > >> Is there any policy in place or method already laid out for putting >> bounties on certain task items? In particular, I could chip something >> in for the following two tickets: > > What Phil said. > >> 1) https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-88 >> 2) https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-238 > > Note that COMPRESS-88 is extremely unlikely to end up in an official ASF > distribution anyway - the real problem is PKWARE's licensing of the > encryption parts of the spec. This is unless you mean the WinZIP AES > implementation or the "old encryption" rather than the strong crypto > protocol described by PKWARE. > > What Compress can do is provide hooks that an implementation of > COMPRESS-88 can be maintained outside of Compress. I plan to seriously > get the ball rolling for Compress 2.x (which should provide said hooks > in the ZIP package) after christmas but have too much on my plate to > drive this right now. > > Stefan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
