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Re: Unzip password-protected ZIP file in RAM? [message #183450 is a reply to message #183447]

Fri, 25 October 2013 17:18

Robert Heller
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At Fri, 25 Oct 2013 14:51:38 +0200 Gilles <nospam(at)nospam(dot)com> wrote:

>
> Hello
>
> This is a newbie question.
>
> While travelling, I keep an .htaccess-protected text files with
> e-mails/passwords, credit card numbers, etc.

You really don't want to do this!

>
> To make it more secure, I was thinking of compressing the file as a
> password-protected ZIP file, and access it through a PHP script that
> would unzip it in RAM and display the contents, so that a clear text
> version is no longer necessary.

This probably not really much better.

>
> What do you think? Can PHP do this?
>
> It's 5.3.13 running on a hosted *nix server.
>
> Thank you.
>

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		Unzip password-protected ZIP file in RAM? By: Gilles Ganault on Fri, 25 October 2013 12:51
		Re: Unzip password-protected ZIP file in RAM? By: J.O. Aho on Fri, 25 October 2013 16:37
		Re: Unzip password-protected ZIP file in RAM? By: Gilles Ganault on Fri, 25 October 2013 19:22
		Re: Unzip password-protected ZIP file in RAM? By: Robert Heller on Fri, 25 October 2013 17:18
		Re: Unzip password-protected ZIP file in RAM? By: The Natural Philosoph on Fri, 25 October 2013 19:30
		Re: Unzip password-protected ZIP file in RAM? By: Gilles Ganault on Fri, 25 October 2013 19:53
		Re: Unzip password-protected ZIP file in RAM? By: Arno Welzel on Tue, 29 October 2013 19:01

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