PKZIP Server Technical Specifications

For Windows Servers



Encryption MethodsStrong Password Encryption
Traditional ZIP Password Encryption
Encryption Algorithms
AES (256, 192 and 128 bit keys)
3DES (168 bit key)
Traditional PKWARE
Decryption Methods
Strong Password Decryption
X.509 Public Key Decryption
Mixed Password and Public Key Decryption
Traditional ZIP Password Decryption
Decryption Algorithms AES (256, 192 and 128 bit keys)
3DES (112 and 168 bit keys)
DES
RC2 (40, 64 and 128 bit keys),
RC4 (40, 64 and 128 bit keys)
Traditional ZIP Password Decryption
Integrity ChecksX.509 Digital Signature Validation
Maximum passphrase/password length260 characters
Minimum passphrase/password lengthDefaults to 8, configurable
Compression Algorithms Deflate, Deflate64™, BZIP2, DCL Implode, LZMA, PPMd, Store (no compression)
Number of Compression levels10
Extended ZIP file format supportZIP64™
Compress files > 4GB
Archive > 65535 files per ZIP file
Create PKSFX® Self-Extracting Files Yes
Supported File Creation typesZIP, BZIP2, TAR, GZIP, Uuencode, XXencode
Supported File Extraction types ZIP, RAR, TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, ARJ, BinHex(hqx), CAB, LZH, Uuencode, XXencode, .Z, .ZIPX
Operating System Requirements Windows 2008 Server
Windows 2003 Server
Windows 2000 Server SP4
Memory Requirements128 MB Minimum
256 MB Recommended (512 MB on Vista and W7)
Disk Requirements 28 MB available disk space for 32-bit Operating System
33 MB available disk space for 64-bit Operating System

For UNIX/Linux Servers

Encryption Methods Traditional ZIP Password Encryption
Decryption AlgorithmsAES (256, 192 and 128 bit keys),
3DES (112 and 168 bit keys)
DES
RC2 (40, 64 and 128 bit keys),
RC4 (40, 64 and 128 bit keys)
Traditional ZIP Password Decryption
Integrity ChecksX.509 Digital Signature Validation
Maximum passphrase/password length260 characters
Minimum passphrase/password lengthDefaults to 8, configurable
Compression Algorithms Deflate, Deflate64™, BZIP2, DCL Implode, LZMA, PPMd, Store (no compression)
Number of Compression levels10
Extended ZIP file format supportZIP64™
Compress files > 4GB
Archive > 65535 files per ZIP file
Create PKSFX® Self-Extracting Files Yes
Supported File Creation typesZIP, BZIP2, TAR, GZIP, Uuencode, XXencode
Supported File Extraction types ZIP, TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, ARJ, BinHex(hqx), LZH, Uuencode, XXEncode, .Z
Operating System Requirements
HP-UX 11i V1 or above on PA_RISC, V2 or above on Itanium
IBM AIX 5.2 or above
RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 or above
SUSE Enterprise Linux 9 or above
Solaris 8 or above (UltraSPARC)
Memory Requirements64 MB Minimum
128 MB Recommended
Disk Requirements15 MB available disk space