# ARCHIVE\_CREATE with password
**URL:** https://discourse.cmake.org/t/archive-create-with-password/6665
**Category:** Usage
**Created:** [October 14, 2022, 8:55am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/archive-create-with-password/6665 "2022-10-14T08:55:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Suthambhara\_N](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/Suthambhara_N)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2022, 8:55am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/archive-create-with-password/6665/1 "2022-10-14T08:55:20Z")
Hi
Is it possible to zip either using cmake -E tar or file(ARCHIVE\_CREATE) but with encryption. I couldn’t find such a support after searching. Any suggestions would be helpful
Thanks
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### Author:  [@jtxa](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/jtxa)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2022, 8:49pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/archive-create-with-password/6665/2 "2022-10-15T20:49:07Z")
If the documentation does not say so, it’s not possible at the moment.
In that case you can file a features request on the [issue tracker](https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/issues).
CMake uses libarchive, which seems to support encryption at least for the ZIP format.
If you need a solution today, you need to call a command line tool like 7z yourself.
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### Author:  [@Suthambhara\_N](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/Suthambhara_N)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2022, 2:25am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/archive-create-with-password/6665/3 "2022-10-16T02:25:40Z")
Thanks for the clarification. I was hoping that there would be some hidden experimental feature. I will raise a feature request as you suggested
Kind regards,
Suthambhara