Neither macOS nor Windows have built-in GUI support for encrypting ZIP archives.
(Weak) encryption via shell:
zip -re FILES·zip FILES/
MacOS has GUI decryption of such files (I don’t know about Windows).
Safer: AES-256 encryption
• MacOS app: www.keka.io/en/
• Windows app: www.7-zip.org
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