>> Plus it's trivially easy to crack. Even long passwords hash down to 8 
>> characters or something. There are plenty of free programs that'll 
>> crack a zip archive in a matter of minutes or hours just with brute 
>> force.
>>
> 
> Some zippers (IIRC Winzip 9+, at least) support AES nowadays. Shouldn't 
> be as easy to crack as older ZIP-archives.

Depends. If the key algorithm is still as weak, the cipher makes no 
difference.

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