[Python-Dev] Support for Encrypted Zip as python scripts (original) (raw)
Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Aug 24 03:52:26 CEST 2009
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On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Gregory P. Smith<greg at 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.)
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