PKZIP Server Technical Specifications

For Windows Servers



Encryption Methods Strong 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 Checks X.509 Digital Signature Validation
Maximum passphrase/password length 260 characters
Minimum passphrase/password length Defaults to 8, configurable
Compression Algorithms Deflate, Deflate64™, BZIP2, DCL Implode, LZMA, PPMd, Store (no compression)
Number of Compression levels 10
Extended ZIP file format support ZIP64™
Compress files > 4GB
Archive > 65535 files per ZIP file
Create PKSFX® Self-Extracting Files Yes
Supported File Creation types ZIP, 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 Requirements 128 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
*When operating in FIPS 140-2 Mode, these features cannot be enabled as of v12.5

For UNIX/Linux Servers

Encryption Methods Traditional ZIP Password Encryption
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 Checks X.509 Digital Signature Validation
Maximum passphrase/password length 260 characters
Minimum passphrase/password length Defaults to 8, configurable
Compression Algorithms Deflate, Deflate64™, BZIP2, DCL Implode, LZMA, PPMd, Store (no compression)
Number of Compression levels 10
Extended ZIP file format support ZIP64™
Compress files > 4GB
Archive > 65535 files per ZIP file
Create PKSFX® Self-Extracting Files Yes
Supported File Creation types ZIP, BZIP2, TAR, GZIP, Uuencode, XXencode
Supported File Extraction types ZIP, TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, ARJ, BinHex(hqx), LZH, Uuencode, XXEncode, .Z, .ZIPX
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 Requirements 64 MB Minimum (128 MB Recommended)
Disk Requirements 15 MB available disk space
*When operating in FIPS 140-2 Mode, these features cannot be enabled as of v12.5