A replacement for the builtin zipfile module, with fast, C-based zipfile decryption czipfile is a replacement for Python's builtin "zipfile" module, and provides much faster, C-based zipfile decryption. The code is actually 95% identical to Python 2.6.5's Lib/zipfile.py, with some very minor modifications to allow it to compile in Cython, and the _ZipDecrypter class adapted to take advantage of native C datatypes.