Can we use a cert to package a .zip file to let only people with cert can open the zip?

Question

Except from using password, can I use a digital cert to assign for encoding the password to prevent people open the zip file? Thanks.

Answer 1

According to Wikipedia

PKWARE SecureZIP also supports … Digital Certificate-based encryption

Or you could use something like PGP to encrypt a Zip symmetric-encryption password that you want to exchange with another person.

Or you could use PGP to encrypt a zip file (with or without Zip password protection)