Re: Self Decrypting Archive Freeware?

From: Jean-Luc Cooke (jlcooke_at_engsoc.org)
Date: 04/29/05 

Date: 29 Apr 2005 12:36:43 GMT

mike <spamme0@netscape.net> wrote:
> You're absolutely right...BUT...There are operating systems that can
> be booted from a floppy on any known PC and should run a self-extracting
> archive from that same floppy. Can't do that with a Windows program.

As others have said, floppies may not exist in 10 years time. Or
Compact Flash, or Hard Disks, or x86 processors.

One might say "get around the processor/architecture problem using
Java". A java decrypting-extracting tool might be good.

ziparchive = new java.util.zip.ZipInputStream(
  new ca.carleton.engsoc.jlcooke.DecryptingInputStream(
    new FileInputStream(filename), decryptKey
  ));

But who says that the byte-code interpreter for Java 1.2 will be around
in 10 years?

You've got a pickle of a problem here mike, no doubt about it.

JLC

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