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Re:Starting emails with "BEGIN PGP MESSAGE" will fool the fi... by stvltvs on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @01:47PM (#40370133)
There is a way to cajole zip into encrypting filenames if this is important enough to put up with unzipping twice. Plus you might get better compression!

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/289999/how-to-zip-d...

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Re:Starting emails with "BEGIN PGP MESSAGE" will fool the fi... by ethbr1 on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @03:12PM (#40371070)
Point! I forgot about that, from my pathological remoted-through-3+-systems consulting days.
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Re:Starting emails with "BEGIN PGP MESSAGE" will fool the fi... by ale42 on Thursday May 16, 2024 @06:38AM (#40376869)
Isn't it better to just use 7z instead, which can encrypt filenames without tricks?
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Re:Starting emails with "BEGIN PGP MESSAGE" will fool the fi... by stvltvs on Thursday May 16, 2024 @07:11AM (#40377035)
This is for times when you can't assume 7zip is available to the decrypter.
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