From: "José Luis" <jose.luis.rc@...>
Date: 2006-04-04T06:08:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Can rubyzip do password protected files?

Thanks for the fast response.


r.b.hicks@gmail.com wrote:
> I ran into this myself recently.  Rubyzip is a wrapper around the zlib
> compression library.
>
> Zlib itself doesn't support password protected zips.  There is another
> library made by the same folks that created zlib called Info-zip.  It
> does support password protection but you'll have to write your own to
> wrapper to make it a Ruby extension.
>
> N.B.  There's a comment in the source for info-zip that implies that
> the password protection handling is hard to work with.  I found that to
> be the case.  In the end, I purchased a third party compression library
> (from ChilKat).

I had a feeling that would be the case.
Thanks for the tip.