Hi b10m,

This has "recently" been discussed in Password Protected Zip files and Archive::ZIP. Unfortunately, you have to rely on some system call.

Okay, thanks, I've had a look at that, and can see how to do it. But now after checking out the "man" for using the "zip" utility here , I'm starting to have second throughts about sending the (sensitive) information via email, even though the file would be password protected. The "man" doc suggested that the encryption used in ZIP is "weak".

Maybe a better way of doing this, is to give the user a login (Apache/.htacess,etc) to a path, where he could view the information. Or use PGP to encrypt the file before emailing it ?

There is also a HTTPS connection available, if I combined that with the (.htacess) login, would that be a better alternative ?

Peter

In reply to Re: Adding a password to Zip compression ? by peterr
in thread Adding a password to Zip compression ? by peterr

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