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Following my answer. If I can list contents of a password-protected ZIP file, check the file types of each stored file and even replace it with another one, without actually knowing the password, then should ZIP files be still treated as secure?
I can hijack (intercept) someone else's file (password-protected ZIP file) and I can replace one of the files it contains, with my one (fake, virus) without knowing the password. Replaced file will remain unencrypted, not password-protected inside the ZIP, but other files won't be modified.
If a victim unpacks a password-protected archive, extracting program will ask for the password only once, not every time per each file. So end user will not see the difference -- whether the program does not ask for a password, because it already knows it (original file) or because the file being extracted doesn't need a password (file modified by me). This way, I can inject something really bad into a password-protected ZIP file, without knowing its password and count on the receiver assuming the file is unmodified.
To answer this, there needs to be a better definition of "secure" and/or "safe". It's always got to be defined in light of the purpose of the protection and the risk to the system. There's no one size fits all here, what's "safe enough" for one system, may be abysmally weak on another. And what's "safe enough" on another may be cost prohibitive or down right impractical in a different case.
Confidentiality - marginal at best. Confidentiality is usually rated in terms of how long it will take to gain access to the protected material. I may be able to change the zip file, but as a hacker it'll take me some amount of time either crack the password or brute force it. Not a lot of time, passwords are one of the weaker protections, and given the way zip files are often shared, social engineering one's way to the password is usually not hard.
Availability - generally not applicable to this sort of security control - this usually refers to the risk of making a service unavailable - the data storing/packaging usually doesn't affect availability one way or the other.
The trick is - how much better do you want to get? Encrypted email is an option - as a better protection. Although it poses it's own connectivity concerns. And there's many better ways to encrypt data - but the better options also involve key distribution challenges that can add time and cost concerns.
As a quick way to package and share some data that you don't want to make completely public - it's better than nothing, and it's sometimes the only common denominator you can work out. For anything high-risk, I'd find a better option.
This is one of those cases where security is limited by usability and human intent. The archive manager has no way of telling whether or not the file you modified was meant to be encrypted in the first place. Essentially this is a social engineering attack, in that you tricked the user into believing that the original file was in place. However, the real security vulnerability would be that you had read/write access to a sensitive archive in the first place.
In addition to the risks you have already pointed, IMHO one of the biggest problems with compression tools is related to the use of temporary folders to store the uncompressed files. As the input files can be of arbitrary size, the uncompressed output files might not fit in RAM. A temporary output folder (often the OS's default) is used.
So it does not matter how strong the encryption algorithm is if you forget to properly shred the temporary folders each time you unzip a psw-protected file. Most tools do not automatically clean the output directory nor warn the user about it. Same thing when compressing: you should make sure to shred the original file.
If I were to use the a general definition fo Secure to mean that it enforces Privacy, Authentication, Integrity and Non-Repudiation, I would say its is not secure on a number of counts. But as the password protection on an Encrypted ZIP file intends to only provide Privacy (disallowing the viewing of the content of a file except by intended parties) I would say that it does do its job.
So the bottom line is, unless there is a vulnerability or back door in the encrypting code, it is as secure as your pass phrase is resistant to brute force attacks. There are various sites on the Internet where you can prototype the scheme you intend to use, to check roughly how long it would take to crack. (Do not use WHAT you intend to use)
Anything anyone can gain physical access to, is crackable, given enough time. However, you can have practical security if the cost and or time required to gain access to the information exceeds its likely value. Unless it is something like financial information, there is often a big difference between what is valuable to a hacker, and what is valuable to you. If the name of your file inside the zip is Attachment_1, and the e-mail's unencrypted contents does not describe the attachment's contents, it doesn't give an hacker much to go on. A hacker is not likely to be willing to spend much time, and certainly not money, to gain access to something that doesn't have a convincingly high probability of containing something of value to him.
The official .ZIP format specification does allow for hiding the list of file names (but not number of files), as well as hiding metadata such as the original file size and CRC of the original file. But you can't use WinZip or Info-Zip to do that. Additionally, integrity in the official .ZIP specification is provided through the use of one or more digital signatures in addition to the encryption. My personal recommendation, though, is to avoid passwords, and instead use public keys. Key derivation functions are constantly getting faster, and I don't believe any vendor has even tried to keep up.
Not everything that is password protected can be hacked by brute force attacks. However, zip files can be cracked by brute force. Other systems have checks in place, like for example, lock out after three attempts, passkey verifications etc.
This chapter covers the Spring Framework implementation of the Inversion of Control(IoC) [1] principle. IoCis also known as dependency injection (DI). It is a process whereby objects definetheir dependencies, that is, the other objects they work with, only through constructorarguments, arguments to a factory method, or properties that are set on the objectinstance after it is constructed or returned from a factory method. The container theninjects those dependencies when it creates the bean. This process is fundamentallythe inverse, hence the name Inversion of Control (IoC), of the bean itselfcontrolling the instantiation or location of its dependencies by using directconstruction of classes, or a mechanism such as the Service Locator pattern.
In Spring, the objects that form the backbone of your application and that are managedby the Spring IoC container are called beans. A bean is an object that isinstantiated, assembled, and otherwise managed by a Spring IoC container. Otherwise, abean is simply one of many objects in your application. Beans, and the dependenciesamong them, are reflected in the configuration metadata used by a container.
The interface org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext represents the Spring IoCcontainer and is responsible for instantiating, configuring, and assembling theaforementioned beans. The container gets its instructions on what objects toinstantiate, configure, and assemble by reading configuration metadata. Theconfiguration metadata is represented in XML, Java annotations, or Java code. It allowsyou to express the objects that compose your application and the rich interdependenciesbetween such objects.
Several implementations of the ApplicationContext interface are suppliedout-of-the-box with Spring. In standalone applications it is common to create aninstance ofClassPathXmlApplicationContextor FileSystemXmlApplicationContext. While XML has been the traditional format for defining configuration metadata you caninstruct the container to use Java annotations or code as the metadata format byproviding a small amount of XML configuration to declaratively enable support for theseadditional metadata formats.
The following diagram is a high-level view of how Spring works. Your application classesare combined with configuration metadata so that after the ApplicationContext iscreated and initialized, you have a fully configured and executable system orapplication.
As the preceding diagram shows, the Spring IoC container consumes a form ofconfiguration metadata; this configuration metadata represents how you as anapplication developer tell the Spring container to instantiate, configure, and assemblethe objects in your application.
XML-based metadata is not the only allowed form of configuration metadata. TheSpring IoC container itself is totally decoupled from the format in which thisconfiguration metadata is actually written. These days many developers chooseJava-based configuration for their Spring applications.
Spring configuration consists of at least one and typically more than one beandefinition that the container must manage. XML-based configuration metadata shows thesebeans configured as elements inside a top-level element. Javaconfiguration typically uses @Bean annotated methods within a @Configuration class.
The id attribute is a string that you use to identify the individual bean definition.The class attribute defines the type of the bean and uses the fully qualifiedclassname. The value of the id attribute refers to collaborating objects. The XML forreferring to collaborating objects is not shown in this example; seeDependencies for more information.
Instantiating a Spring IoC container is straightforward. The location path or pathssupplied to an ApplicationContext constructor are actually resource strings that allowthe container to load configuration metadata from a variety of external resources suchas the local file system, from the Java CLASSPATH, and so on.
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