{"id":5553,"date":"2023-12-28T21:40:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T03:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/?p=5553"},"modified":"2023-12-28T21:41:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T03:41:17","slug":"simple-method-to-encrypt-decrypt-zip-files-on-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/simple-method-to-encrypt-decrypt-zip-files-on-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple method to Encrypt\/Decrypt Zip files on Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Unfortunately, encrypting a file on Windows with a simple password is not super simple.  While Windows does now support other compression formats (RAR, 7-Zip) it does not support encryption for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, Windows natively supports the ZipCrypto algorithm. No AES.  Note that the ZipCrypto algorithm is not considered secure, and shouldn&#8217;t be <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.devolutions.net\/2020\/08\/why-you-should-never-use-zipcrypto\">used <\/a>for highly confidential data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following method, you will need 7-Zip to create the archive, but you won&#8217;t need it for decryption as Windows has built in support for ZipCrypto decryption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To create the archive, you will need 7-Zip installed. Right click on your file\/folder -> 7-Zip -> Add to Archive.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You should be presented with a similar window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Change Archive format to zip<br>Enter the password<br>Ensure that the Encryption method is ZipCrypto<br>Hit OK to create the Archive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"834\" height=\"705\" src=\"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-5.png 834w, https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-5-300x254.png 300w, https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-5-768x649.png 768w, https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-5-355x300.png 355w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 834px) 100vw, 834px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can now transfer the password protected archive to a new machine.  You&#8217;ll be prompted for the password when you extract the archive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, encrypting a file on Windows with a simple password is not super simple. While Windows does now support other compression formats (RAR, 7-Zip) it does not support encryption for them. Currently, Windows natively supports the ZipCrypto algorithm. No AES. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/simple-method-to-encrypt-decrypt-zip-files-on-windows\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1633,575,13,200,1634,503,273,1036],"class_list":["post-5553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","tag-7zip","tag-encryption","tag-microsoft","tag-password","tag-rar","tag-security","tag-windows","tag-zip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5553"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5585,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553\/revisions\/5585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}