diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 2ce7e602..026672a4 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ Library to support the reading and writing of zip files.
 edition = "2018"
 
 [dependencies]
+aes = { version = "0.5.0", optional = true }
+arrayvec = { version = "0.5.1", optional = true }
 flate2 = { version = "1.0.0", default-features = false, optional = true }
 time = { version = "0.1", optional = true }
 byteorder = "1.3"
@@ -24,6 +26,7 @@ rand = "0.7"
 walkdir = "2"
 
 [features]
+aes-crypto = ["aes", "arrayvec"]
 deflate = ["flate2/rust_backend"]
 deflate-miniz = ["flate2/default"]
 deflate-zlib = ["flate2/zlib"]
diff --git a/src/aes_ctr.rs b/src/aes_ctr.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3ab74725
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/aes_ctr.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,134 @@
+use aes::block_cipher::generic_array::GenericArray;
+use aes::{BlockCipher, NewBlockCipher};
+use arrayvec::{Array, ArrayVec};
+use std::{any, fmt, io};
+
+/// AES-128.
+#[derive(Debug)]
+pub struct Aes128;
+/// AES-192
+#[derive(Debug)]
+pub struct Aes192;
+/// AES-256.
+#[derive(Debug)]
+pub struct Aes256;
+
+/// An AES cipher kind.
+pub trait AesKind {
+    /// Key type.
+    type Key: Array<Item = u8>;
+    /// Cipher used to decrypt.
+    type Cipher;
+}
+
+impl AesKind for Aes256 {
+    type Key = [u8; 32];
+
+    type Cipher = aes::Aes256;
+}
+
+/// An AES-CTR key stream generator.
+///
+/// Implements the slightly non-standard AES-CTR variant used by WinZip AES encryption.
+///
+/// Typical AES-CTR implementations combine a nonce with a 64 bit counter. WinZIP AES instead uses
+/// no nonce and also uses a different byte order (little endian) than NIST (big endian).
+///
+/// The stream implements the `Read` trait; encryption or decryption is performed by XOR-ing the
+/// bytes from the key stream with the ciphertext/plaintext.
+struct AesCtrZipKeyStream<C: AesKind> {
+    counter: u128,
+    cipher: C::Cipher,
+    buffer: ArrayVec<C::Key>,
+}
+
+impl<C> fmt::Debug for AesCtrZipKeyStream<C>
+where
+    C: AesKind,
+{
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
+        write!(
+            f,
+            "AesCtrZipKeyStream<{}>(counter: {})",
+            any::type_name::<C>(),
+            self.counter
+        )
+    }
+}
+
+impl<C> AesCtrZipKeyStream<C>
+where
+    C: AesKind,
+    C::Cipher: NewBlockCipher,
+{
+    #[allow(dead_code)]
+    /// Creates a new zip variant AES-CTR key stream.
+    pub fn new(key: &C::Key) -> AesCtrZipKeyStream<C> {
+        AesCtrZipKeyStream {
+            counter: 1,
+            cipher: C::Cipher::new_varkey(key.as_slice()).expect("key should have correct size"),
+            buffer: ArrayVec::new(),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl<C> io::Read for AesCtrZipKeyStream<C>
+where
+    C: AesKind,
+    C::Cipher: BlockCipher,
+{
+    fn read(&mut self, buf: &mut [u8]) -> std::io::Result<usize> {
+        if self.buffer.len() == 0 {
+            // Note: AES block size is always 16 bytes, same as u128.
+            let mut block = GenericArray::clone_from_slice(&self.counter.to_le_bytes());
+            self.cipher.encrypt_block(&mut block);
+            self.counter += 1;
+            self.buffer = block.into_iter().collect();
+        }
+
+        let target_len = buf.len().min(self.buffer.len());
+
+        buf.copy_from_slice(&self.buffer[0..target_len]);
+        self.buffer.drain(0..target_len);
+        Ok(target_len)
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+/// XORs a slice in place with another slice.
+#[inline]
+pub fn xor(dest: &mut [u8], src: &[u8]) {
+    for (lhs, rhs) in dest.iter_mut().zip(src.iter()) {
+        *lhs ^= *rhs;
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::{xor, Aes256, AesCtrZipKeyStream};
+    use std::io::Read;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn simple_example() {
+        let ciphertext: [u8; 5] = [0xdc, 0x99, 0x93, 0x5e, 0xbf];
+        let expected_plaintext = &[b'a', b's', b'd', b'f', b'\n'];
+        let key = [
+            0xd1, 0x51, 0xa6, 0xab, 0x53, 0x68, 0xd7, 0xb7, 0xbf, 0x49, 0xf7, 0xf5, 0x8a, 0x4e,
+            0x10, 0x36, 0x25, 0x1c, 0x13, 0xba, 0x12, 0x45, 0x37, 0x65, 0xa9, 0xe4, 0xed, 0x9f,
+            0x4a, 0xa8, 0xda, 0x3b,
+        ];
+
+        let mut key_stream = AesCtrZipKeyStream::<Aes256>::new(&key);
+
+        let mut key_buf = [0u8; 5];
+        key_stream.read(&mut key_buf).unwrap();
+
+        let mut plaintext = ciphertext;
+        eprintln!("{:?}", plaintext);
+
+        xor(&mut plaintext, &key_buf);
+        eprintln!("{:?}", plaintext);
+
+        assert_eq!(&plaintext, expected_plaintext);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 3b39ab4f..df398ce7 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ pub use crate::read::ZipArchive;
 pub use crate::types::DateTime;
 pub use crate::write::ZipWriter;
 
+#[cfg(feature = "aes-crypto")]
+mod aes_ctr;
 mod compression;
 mod cp437;
 mod crc32;