From: "Dave Symes" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, September 8, 2014 8:49 AM > A question on behalf of my dear wife. > Using SparkFS some time ago, I (Dave) created some DES encrypted archives > for SWMBO. > <snip> > ... are there any archiving apps native to the Win PC that'll also > open and de-crypt the archives? I know that 7-Zip will encrypt and decrypt AES but I don't know whether it will decrypt the earlier DES. The DES was officially withdrawn about 9 or 10 years ago after AES was announced sometime around 2001. Gerald