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Re:Google has marked my website as harmful for a file that d... by danpalmer on Friday August 11, 2023 @07:26AM (#37087435)
This is why I said zipped then encrypted, yes any pattern matching like filenames could be used to identify malware.

Plus encrypting then zipping removes any compression opportunity so that's just a bad idea.

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Re:Google has marked my website as harmful for a file that d... by anotherhue on Friday August 11, 2023 @09:15AM (#37088323)
> Plus encrypting then zipping removes any compression opportunity so that's just a bad idea.

Not always!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRIME

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