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Technical Specifications | PKZIP Server | PKWARE

For Windows Servers

Encryption Methods	Strong Password Encryption Traditional ZIP Password Encryption OpenPGP (RFC 4880)
Encryption Algorithms	AES (256, 192 and 128 bit keys) 3DES (168 bit key) Traditional PKWARE* Cast5 (128-bit)* IDEA*
Decryption Methods	Strong Password Decryption X.509 Public Key Decryption Mixed Password and Public Key Decryption Traditional ZIP Password Decryption OpenPGP (RFC 4880)
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 Cast5 (128-bit)* IDEA*
Integrity Checks	X.509 Digital Signature Validation OpenPGP Key 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, TAR BZIP2, TAR GZIP, OpenPGP
Supported File Extraction types	ZIP, RAR, TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, ARJ, BinHex(hqx), CAB, LZH, Uuencode, XXencode, .Z, .ZIPX, .7z, .iso, TAR BZIP2, TAR GZIP, OpenPGP
Operating System Requirements	Windows 2003 and higher with IE 6.0 or above
Memory Requirements	256 MB RAM (512 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

For UNIX/Linux Servers

Encryption Methods	Traditional ZIP Password Encryption OpenPGP (RFC 4880)
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 Cast5 (128-bit)* IDEA*
Integrity Checks	X.509 Digital Signature Validation OpenPGP Key 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, TAR BZIP2, TAR GZIP, OpenPGP
Supported File Extraction types	ZIP, TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, ARJ, BinHex(hqx), LZH, Uuencode, XXEncode, .Z, .ZIPX, .7z, .iso, TAR BZIP2, TAR GZIP, OpenPGP
Operating System Requirements
Operating System Requirements	Solaris 8 or greater on UltraSPARC Solaris 10 or greater on x86 IBM AIX 5L Version 5.3 (5300-08) or higher 6L Version 6.1 (6100-00) or higher 7L Version 7.1 (7100-00) or higher HP-UX (Itanium only) 11iv2 or higher with patches: PHSS_39821, PHSS_39897 and PHSS_40537, PHSS_41184 11iv3 or higher with patches: PHCO_41039, PHSS_39822 and PHSS_40538, PHSS_41183, and PHSS_41185 Linux RedHat 4 and greater SuSE 9 and greater on x86, x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04 (LTS) and greater on x86 and x86_64 x86_64 requires the 32-bit compatibility libraries for that Linux distribution.
Memory Requirements	64 MB RAM (128 MB recommended)
*When operating in FIPS 140-2 Mode, these features cannot be enabled as of v12.5