[Python-Dev] Fast Implementation for ZIP decryption (original) (raw)

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Sun Aug 30 14:59:41 CEST 2009

On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 06:55:33 pm Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> Does it sound worthy enough to create a patch for and integrate > into python itself?

Probably not, given that people think that the algorithm itself is fairly useless.

I would think that for most people, the threat model isn't "the CIA is reading my files" but "my little brother or nosey co-worker is reading my files", and for that, zip encryption with a good password is probably perfectly adequate. E.g. OpenOffice uses it for password-protected documents.

Given that Python already supports ZIP decryption (as it should), are there any reasons to prefer the current pure-Python implementation over a faster version?

-- Steven D'Aprano

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