Jack Cushman added the comment:
Agreed that no one should be using zip encryption. :) I hit this issue working
on an academic exercise. I'm fine with closing this.
(I do think the exception types in zipfile set up a trap for the programmer
here: Python throws a different exception type
Jack Cushman added the comment:
Ah, thanks! That makes sense. I see it's documented in "man unzip" as well:
"The correct password will always check out against the header, but there is a
1-in-256 chance that an incorrect password will as well. (This is a security
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New submission from Jack Cushman:
This bug arises when attempting to unzip a password-protected zipfile using the
wrong password.
Usually when zipfile extraction is attempted with an incorrect password,
zipfile raise `RuntimeError("Bad password for file")`. But for a small
