Ah, sensitive data. Nope, as sporty said, don't use the zip password thingy!

You entered a realm of hassle now :) Sending out an e-mail with user/pass combo for a .htaccess protected site doesn't do much good either. The mail can be sniffed on it's way to the user, or the user's mailbox can be read by others (how many people do "lock" their screens when AFK?). The same argument is of course valid with the SSL connection. How does the user get his/her username/password? If you have the option of handing it over in person, go for that, otherwise: good luck :)

I would opt for GPG/PGP encryption (although I dislike the idea of sending files over SMTP, but that's just my personal believe). A lot of Windows users seem to see PGP/GPG as a burden though, but I even convinced my mom to use it, so I bet everyone can be convinced after some (long) discussions :)

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b10m

In reply to Re: Adding a password to Zip compression ? by b10m
in thread Adding a password to Zip compression ? by peterr

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