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Re: zip with encryption
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 17:15:44 -0500
- Subject: Re: zip with encryption
- References: <200402202134.i1KLYBcC022320@kafka.net.nih.gov>
- 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
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