zip with encryption

[Christopher Faylor]

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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