WinZip 9.0 in beta. (Security).WinZip Computing have released the first public beta version A pre-shipping release of hardware or software that has gone through alpha test. A beta version of software is supposed to be very close to the final product, but, in practice, it is more a way of getting users to test the software in the first place under real conditions. of WinZip 9.0, adding encryption capabilities and other improvements. The advanced encryption features were simultaneously added to the new beta versions of the WinZip E-Mail Attachment Add-On for Outlook and the WinZip Command Line Support Add-On. WinZip's new encryption capabilities support 128- and 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (cryptography, algorithm) Advanced Encryption Standard - (AES) The NIST's replacement for the Data Encryption Standard (DES). The Rijndael /rayn-dahl/ symmetric block cipher, designed by Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen, was chosen by a NIST contest to be AES. (AES). The National Institute of Standards and Technology National Institute of Standards and Technology, governmental agency within the U.S. Dept. of Commerce with the mission of "working with industry to develop and apply technology, measurements, and standards" in the national interest. (NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. ) selected AES as the standard for both governmental and private data encryption. WinZip's implementation of AES encryption is FIPS-197 certified by NIST. Other enhancements include support for 64-bit extensions to the Zip file format, which reduce practical restrictions on Zip file capacity, and support for the "enhanced deflate (file format, compression) deflate - A compression standard derived from LZ77; it is reportedly used in zip, gzip, PKZIP, and png, among others. Unlike LZW, deflate compression does not use patented compression algorithms. " compression method, which compresses data. The WinZip E-Mail Attachment Add-On for Outlook zips files being attached to Microsoft Outlook e-mail messages. The WinZip Command Line Support Add-On aids zipping and unzipping from t he command line, and automates repetitive tasks using batch (BAT) files or scripts. www.winzip.com |
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