But what kind of encryption it provides depends on the program you use to create and open the ZIP file. The .zip format supports two forms of encryption and password protection.

Encrypt compressed files using 7-Zip WinZip & WinRAR are not free, and so we will show you how you can add a password to your compressed and archived files using 7-Zip which is open source and ...

Browse and select the ZIP file whose password you want to recover and click on Open. After the program finishes downloading some resources, it will begin the attempts to recover the password.

With the file open in Pages, Numbers, or Keynote, select File and then Set Password to choose and apply your password.