The news is out

[BananaPannaPoe]

Pkware has decided to change their encryption of the zip program so that
..zip files will not be compatable with Winzip or any generic or micorsoft
zip/unzipping program. So Winzip also announced that they will also make a
Winzip exclsive encryption .zip file only compatable with their program.
Since all will still use the .zip extension nobody will know which they have
until they try to unzip it and it fails. That will be real handy won't it? I
guess we will all have to go with WinRAR now since it is still standard. You
would thing that Pkware would use .pip and Winzip would use .wip extensions
so we can tell the difference.
What good is it to receive a .zip file from someone which we cannot open? ?
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Engineers are always thinking with their ass!

 

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

Pkware has decided to change their encryption of the zip program so that
.zip files will not be compatable with Winzip or any generic or micorsoft
zip/unzipping program. So Winzip also announced that they will also make a
Winzip exclsive encryption .zip file only compatable with their program.
Since all will still use the .zip extension nobody will know which they have
until they try to unzip it and it fails. That will be real handy won't it? I
guess we will all have to go with WinRAR now since it is still standard. You
would thing that Pkware would use .pip and Winzip would use .wip extensions
so we can tell the difference.
What good is it to receive a .zip file from someone which we cannot open? ?
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Engineers are always thinking with their ass!

So lets all stick to using the current versions (which have been nearly
perfect for many years now) which inter-work just fine .. well, except
for WinXP's version choking on some file names. 8>.

 

[Mark]

Solution... use WinRAR: http://www.rarsoft.com/

IMO, WinRAR is better than Winzip.

 

[LVTravel]

If you read the information from both WinZip and PKware, you will find that
unless you use the most secure encryption feature of both products they will
zip just like the old versions did. They have added increase file capacity.
The original Zip file format limited the number of member files in a Zip
file to 65,535, and the maximum size of both the Zip file itself and any
member file to 4 gigabytes. For all practical purposes, the 64-bit extended
format eliminates all these restrictions. Using the extended format, the
member file size, Zip file size, and number of member files you can add to a
Zip file are limited only by your system's resources. So if the newer
product is used to zip the product you will also have to have the new
version to unzip it but that is the only major changes.

WinZip describes their version 9.0 here
http://www.winzip.com/whatsnew90.htm

and PKware describes PKZip here
http://www.pkzip.com/products/isb/index.html?src=home (Only the Professional
Edition with Secure Desktop - $99.00 list) will have the most secure
encryption.