Edward Snowden’s Privacy Tips: “Get Rid of Dropbox,” Avoid Facebook and Google

Re:Edward Snowden’s Privacy Tips: “Get Rid of Dropbox,” Avoi... by sauere on Saturday October 11, 2014 @08:08PM (#8443814)

The Standard .zip Crypto (know as "ZipCrypto") is 100% trash. However, it is possible to use AES-256 encryption in 7zip (and even WinZip, not that anyone actually uses that anymore...)

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Re:Edward Snowden’s Privacy Tips: “Get Rid of Dropbox,” Avoi... by dingaling on Sunday October 12, 2014 @02:31AM (#8444594)

> and even WinZip

Most big corps still use licensed WinZip, but we've had problems sending AES-encrypted-by-WinZip files to external MS Windows users because the built-in Windows Explorer dezipping algo can't handle AES.

The users double-click on the encrypted Zip file and receive some irrelevant error message ( 'could not create temp file' or thereabouts ).

So often one has to fall-back to the Zip encryption algo.

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Re:Edward Snowden’s Privacy Tips: “Get Rid of Dropbox,” Avoi... by srslack on Saturday October 11, 2014 @10:23PM (#8444088)

And even 7zip's AES implementation is hand-rolled, iirc, so I wouldn't exactly trust it with my life.

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Re:Edward Snowden’s Privacy Tips: “Get Rid of Dropbox,” Avoi... by jmgrosen on Saturday October 11, 2014 @07:59PM (#8443787)

Neither of those are PDF encryption, only restrictions. PDF encryption is bad, yes, but it's not that bad.

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