Self-Decrypting Archive?

[The Mad Rapper]

I want to create a self-decrypting archive on the Linux platform, a PGP zip basically. It will be going to a Windows recipient, so it must be in standard .zip format, and it must be encrypted. How do I do this?

TIA.

 

[tntcoder]

Must it be self-extracting? Windows built in zip extractor can support standard zip encryption.

You could just create an encrypted zip:

zip -e myzip.zip mysecretfile.txt

Send the zip to the windows person, and all they need do is enter a password pre-extraction, no extra software required.

If it must be a self extracting executable, follow this guide: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=847329 and use the -e (encrypt) option with the the zip command as above. That will give you a .exe that will just require a password entering and then extract itself.

Hope that helps.

 

[masterluke]

use winrar under wine - works perfectly