• Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    That 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 to decrypt data you yourself encrypted.

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      3 hours ago

      That was what someone claimed but it isn’t true. Filenames are not accessible in an encrypted zip.

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        39 minutes ago

        They are visible, you can test this yourself. Open a password-protected zip with 7zip and it’ll show the file list even without entering the 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 supports it.