On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Gregory P. Smith<g...@krypto.org> wrote: > I doubt you can even classify the zipfile module's "decryption" support as > encryption. It is trivially stupid, easily cracked (a 32bit crc based > "cipher"). The zipfile module does not support the various later encryption > schemes that use actual crypto algorithms.
Oops. I guess this is what Martin called "traditional PKWARE". Quite separate from the current thread it might make sense to support the stronger encryption schemes in zipfile. > I do not think we should support execution of python scripts or importing of > modules from encrypted zips. I do not see a valid use case. I am still awaiting a use case too (for running an encrypted script). I notice that the OP hasn't replied yet. Let's give them a chance. (I added Shashank back to the thread just in case.) -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
