{"id":4530,"date":"2003-08-12T09:32:18","date_gmt":"2003-08-12T16:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4530"},"modified":"2003-08-12T09:32:18","modified_gmt":"2003-08-12T16:32:18","slug":"destroying_a_st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/12\/destroying_a_st.html","title":{"rendered":"Destroying a standard to save it"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the interest of furthering their respective business interests, it seems that both PKWare and WinZip are determined to destroy the “zip” standard<\/a> for file compression, by releasing incompatible versions of their software.<\/p>\n

But that accessibility has changed since the release, earlier this year, of a new version of the PKZip application for creating and reading Zip files from PKWare, the small, Wisconsin-based software maker that created and published the Zip standard. The new version and a subsequent update include advanced security features that–for now–are exclusive to PKWare.
\nConnecticut-based WinZip, creator of the most popular competing Zip utility, responded last month with a new version of its software. The WinZip update includes similar security extensions, but they’re based on different encryption keys that are incompatible with PKWare’s format.
\nBoth programs use the basic .zip file extension to designate both secure and standard files. The upshot? People who receive a file with .zip now won’t know until they try to open it whether it’s one of three types: a secure file accessible only through PKWare’s software; a secure file accessible only through WinZip; or a standard Zip file that can be accessed by any compression utility.<\/p>\n

Actually, the most astonishing thing about this story? That it isn’t Micro$oft that’s doing it. Though given the precedent, I’m sure they will …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the interest of furthering their respective business interests, it seems that both PKWare and WinZip are determined to destroy the “zip” standard for file compression, by releasing incompatible versions…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2129,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/03\/05\/its_like_moving.html","url_meta":{"origin":4530,"position":0},"title":"It’s like moving into a frickin’ new house","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 5-Mar-02 3:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Moving into a new PC, that is. The guys at the office got my old hard drive working in a different notebook, so I have been able to pull in...","rel":"","context":"In "Personal"","block_context":{"text":"Personal","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/personal"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7333,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/29\/application_man.html","url_meta":{"origin":4530,"position":1},"title":"Application Man","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 29-Mar-05 6:53am","format":false,"excerpt":"And people wonder why I don't want to casually migrate from machine to machine. Stuff I have installed that I want to install on the new PC (a reference for...","rel":"","context":"In "My Computer"","block_context":{"text":"My Computer","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/my-computer"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9740,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/08\/europeans_join_the_zip_lo.html","url_meta":{"origin":4530,"position":2},"title":"Europeans join the Zip-Lok Army against Liquid Terror","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 8-Nov-06 9:08am","format":false,"excerpt":"EU folks are getting on the \"put all your tiny amounts of liquids in a Zip-lok bag before you carry it on\" bandwagon. Passengers were allowed to take only small...","rel":"","context":"In "Travel"","block_context":{"text":"Travel","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/travel"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10915,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/21\/hey_there_wait_a_minute_m.html","url_meta":{"origin":4530,"position":3},"title":"Hey, there, wait a minute, Mr. Postman …","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 21-May-07 9:43am","format":false,"excerpt":"I ran across this map somewhere in the last week or so, showing UK postal code blocks (by the first couple of letters).\u00a0 Very cool. That got me looking...","rel":"","context":"In "Media & Culture"","block_context":{"text":"Media & Culture","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/MrZIP.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":41560,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/29\/how-to-escape-from-zip-ties.html","url_meta":{"origin":4530,"position":4},"title":"How to escape from zip ties","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 29-Mar-14 9:08am","format":false,"excerpt":"Because ... who knows when you might need to know this?Reshared post from +Guy Kawasaki3 ways to escape zip ties [infographic] http:\/\/ow.ly\/2F9Fa2\ufeff 3 ways to escape zip ties [infographic] As the news reminds us every night and the Internet reminds us every minute in between, the world is a dangerous\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7864,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/04\/its_full_of_sta.html","url_meta":{"origin":4530,"position":5},"title":"It’s full of stars …","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 4-Aug-05 7:33am","format":false,"excerpt":"Not only is the Weather Underground a great weather site (I use it in my sidebar), but they have a cool ZIP code-based star chart generator. Spiffy. It's actually kind...","rel":"","context":"In "Science & Nature"","block_context":{"text":"Science & Nature","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/science"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}