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Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 1 day agoThat 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.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That was what someone claimed but it isn’t true. Filenames are not accessible in an encrypted zip.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
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it depends on the type of zip encryption, the default doesn’t encrypt metadata
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 1 day 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.