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Document that zipfile decryption is insanely slow and fix a typo and 

blatant lie in a docstring (it is not useful for security regardless of
how you spell it).
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Gregory P. Smith 2008-01-20 01:32:00 +00:00
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@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ added to individual archive members---for which see the :ref:`zipinfo-objects`
documentation). It can handle ZIP files that use the ZIP64 extensions
(that is ZIP files that are more than 4 GByte in size). It supports
decryption of encrypted files in ZIP archives, but it currently cannot
create an encrypted file.
create an encrypted file. Decryption is extremely slow as it is
implemented in native python rather than C.
For other archive formats, see the :mod:`bz2`, :mod:`gzip`, and
:mod:`tarfile` modules.

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@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ class _ZipDecrypter:
ZIP supports a password-based form of encryption. Even though known
plaintext attacks have been found against it, it is still useful
for low-level securicy.
to be able to get data out of such a file.
Usage:
zd = _ZipDecrypter(mypwd)