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If you are using a College provided terminal, please ask the College ICT team to install it for you ( Option 1: Password protect a ZIP file using 7-Zip WinRAR (and other useful free tools) can be downloaded and installed here under the ‘Compression’ list of tools. If you are using a College provided terminal, please ask the College ICT team to install it for you ( Option 2: Using WinRAR (All Windows and Mac Operating Systems) (Windows 10 only)ħ-Zip (and other useful free tools) can be downloaded and installed here under the ‘Compression’ list of tools. There are two ways to create an encrypted Zip or RaR archive folder:ġ. Instructions on how to send (or receive) file(s)/folder(s) to a third party using OxFile can be found here. Some email client can be set to prevent the reception of Zip or RaR file.Email is limited to 100MB attachment size – OxFile’s limit is 25,000MB.

It is best to send these file types to recipients using the OxFile file transfer service, as opposed to via email for the following reasons: Your resulting Zip or RaR archive folder can then be easily sent to a third party. Zip and RaR are just two technologies that are freely available to do this – other technologies are available that do the same job.

For details on AES encryption method, please refer to from Wikipedia.If you have a collection of files and folders to send to someone, a Zip or RaR archive folder will allow you to combine them all into a single file and protect (encrypt) all the contents with a single password.

In particular, encrypted files can be deleted from a Zip file, or renamed within a Zip file while new, unencrypted files can be added to a Zip file without a password.

7-Zip uses password-based encryption, and even a strong encryption algorithm like AES is of little or no benefit if the passwords you use are weak, or you do not keep track of them in a secure manner.

To open the file, you will need to provide the password.

Now the file is encrypted with password.

Then enter your password (We highly recommend to set password with more than 8 characters which consists of alphabets and numbers), and choose the "Encryption method" you prefer. Make sure to choose " zip" for the archive format.Then right click the selection and choose " 7-Zip" -> " Add to archive." from the menu. Select the file(s) you need to compress.To setup a password for ZIP file, please follow the steps below (screen capture based on 7-Zip): The contents of the files that you want to protect are encrypted based on a password that you specify. 7-Zip's encryption facility protects sensitive documents from unauthorized viewing.