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If you're on Windows, you might think, but why? Well, Mac doesn't offer a GUI interface for password protecting zips.
Yes, bizarre, right?
We can right-click a file/folder and compress it into a zip.
But we can, by using our best friend The Terminal password, protect our zip files!

So let's open our favourite terminal program (mine is iTerm2) and enter the following command.
zip -er ~/Desktop/super_secure.zip ~/Desktop/secure.csv
The parameters are as follows:
zip - The actual zip command-er - Encrypt Recursive~/Desktop/super_secure.zip - Output zip name~/Desktop/secure.csv - Input file/folderOnce we run this, we get prompted to type a password.
You don't see any input on these password fields!
Press enter, and you need to verify the password.

We now created a secure zip.
If we try to open this zip, we see the following prompt.

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