RE: Self Decrypting Archive using a Pass Phrase

I'd go with Scot's suggestion.

However if for any reason you can't then give me a shout.

I rewrote the existing java Zip classes to support AES encryption. But
haven't implemented decryption in the classes.

Most of the cryptography is done using code from the open source
bouncycastle apis.

The code was also POC, it works but it hasn't undergone any rigourus
testing.

Neill

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Harman
Sent: 05 June 2009 01:06
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Self Decrypting Archive using a Pass Phrase

We use 7-zip on Windows and it's always irked me to file transfer to the
PC to zip things. I'd love to keep it all on the i box. Never thought
about it being open source.

Thanks for the tip Scott.

midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 06/04/2009 3:44:24 PM >>>

Would 7-zip work for you? It's open source, and provides 256-bit AES
encryption support.

I managed to get it to work under IBM i (tested on V5R4) in PASE.
Details of that can be found here:
http://www.scottklement.com/p7zip

I haven't used it in production, however, just in some proof-of-concept

things, and it seemed to work. I don't know if it's suitable for your

purposes, but might be worth looking at.



Chris Bipes wrote:

Arg! I keep running into that SPENDMONEY command. I need to take

an

IFS directory and put it in to one big self decrypting archive using

a

pass phrase.



The banks I am sending to do not have any encrypting commercial

software

and do not want to purchase any. They are using Windows XP as their
desktop.



My boss does not want to have our iSeries reach out to some windows
server to do the packaging and encryption. Even though I found a
command line utility that you can extract with XP with a pass

phrase.

(You do not know if it completes successfully on the iSeries with

the

run remote command.) We are creating the IFS files with our iSeries

and

want the whole job under iSeries control. I can take the IFS

directory

and ZIP it already but the encryption part keeps coming up with dead

or

expensive ends.



Anyone what to share their solution?

Chris Bipes
Director of Information Services
CrossCheck, Inc.