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WinZip made a similar choice with its encrypted archives: you could see the list of directories and files before supplying a password.

I would prefer that my account info be encrypted, but I can't use the new OPVault format, because it requires 1Password 5, which isn't supported on OS X 10.9.



I think it is just how the .zip format works, not just the WinZip program. It's very easy to get around that though by double zipping.


WinZip encryption is an extension to the Zip format that they defined:

http://www.winzip.com/win/en/aes_info.htm


PKWARE added filename encryption to the spec in version 6.2, but WinZip never added support for that feature.


This is actually not the whole story. WinZip archives can be encrypted like you describe, but they can also be created with both the data and the list of contents encrypted.




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