Re: Extracting Multisegment Zip Archives

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From	John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: Extracting Multisegment Zip Archives
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On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 02:41:51 -0500
c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:

> Each individual file could be zipped or not and then put through AES
> encryption. Gotta zip BEFORE encryption btw or you get big fat files
> - encrypted files are binary 'white noise' and zippers can't zip.

Did that back at another job, some years ago - the client IIRC was a
fleet-services payment processor, so we dealt with sensitive customer
info at fairly high $ amounts, but either their backend or ours was too
antiquated for more secure methods, so payment info was sent in a plain-
text spreadsheet that we zipped up, PGPed, and...sent over unencrypted
FTP :/

(Hoo boy were we not PCI-compliant at that place - we'd brought on a
guy for compliance years before, but he was one of the most dedicatedly
useless people I've ever had the displeasure to work with. When I got
laid off we *still* weren't compliant, and since he was axed as well I
imagine they never were. To nobody's surprise, the company folded a few
years later.)

When the client got paranoid about that setup, we ended up *printing
out and mailing* the spreadsheets o_O

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Extracting Multisegment Zip Archives Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-19 01:20 +0000
  Re: Extracting Multisegment Zip Archives c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-12-19 02:41 -0500
    Re: Extracting Multisegment Zip Archives John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-12-19 08:05 -0800
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    Re: Extracting Multisegment Zip Archives Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-20 02:47 +0000
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