"Bakko" <duff@nomail.invalid> wrote in message
news:Xns9A15D34F3C0AB64A18E@127.0.0.1...
>I am thinking of using Winzip 11 to send some files securely and will
> use Winzip's 256bit-AES encryption.
>
> My recipients may not have Winzip, so I will use Winzip to make a
> self-
> extracting archive.
>
> Would a 256bit-AES self-extracting archive with be more crackable
> than a
> 256bit-AES ordinary zip archive?


So how are you going to transmit the password for the recipient to
decrypt the file that would be just as secure as the encrypted file?
Since it sounds like you will be sending the file via e-mail to the
"recipients", have them get an e-mail cert, they send you their public
key, you use it to encrypt your file, and only they can decrypt it
using their private key. Otherwise, are you going to send them the
password in the clear in the same e-mail as has the attached encrypted
email? Are you going to send the password in a different email
despite the same malcontent that is sniffing your traffic to get the
encrypted attachment would also be sniffing it for another email with
the password? Call them over an unencrypted phone call? If you
password encrypt the file, just how are you going to get the password
to the recipient?