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• Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That seems less like them decrypting encrypted archives and more like the zip format not encrypting filenames so they’re easily read from the zip’s metadata.

  Which is still a privacy violation, to be clear, but not nearly on the same scale as somehow obtaining and using your passwords.

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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That was what someone claimed but it isn’t true. Filenames are not accessible in an encrypted zip.

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    • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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      it depends on the type of zip encryption, the default doesn’t encrypt metadata

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    • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They are visible, you can test yourself. Open an encrypted zip with 7zip and it’ll show the file list even without entering a password. The “encrypt file names” checkbox doesn’t even appear when creating an archive if the zip format is selected, so I’m not sure the format even supports it.

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