Encrypting zip files with a password based on Zip 2.0 encryption

I am trying to zip and encrypt files in Java (1.6) with a password based on the earlier Zip 2.0 encryption. I have used AES 256 bit encrytpion to encrypt zip files with password and have successfully been able to do so.

Though AES is a stronger and a more secure encryption standard, i need to find a standard that is more widely supported across all zip clients so that the users have a higher success rates opening the password protected zip files. So i was looking for some Zip 2.0 based encryption to encrypt my files. An开发者_如何转开发y help would be appreciated!

Thanks!

You can try Zip4j, a pure java library to handle zip file. It supports encryption/decryption of PKWare and AES encryption methods.

http://www.lingala.net/zip4j/

Key features:

• Create, Add, Extract, Update, Remove files from a Zip file
• Read/Write password protected Zip files
• Supports AES 128/256 Encryption
• Supports Standard Zip Encryption
• Supports Zip64 format
• Supports Store (No Compression) and Deflate compression method
• Create or extract files from Split Zip files (Ex: z01, z02,...zip)
• Supports Unicode file names
• Progress Monitor

License:

• Zip4j is released under Apache License, Version 2.0

I think that nearly all zip-clients do support the WinZip-AES-encryption. As WinZip is far more spread than the original pkzip, it's encryption has become the de-facto standard. Do you have a specific client which does not support the aes-encryption?