I’m looking forward to deploying PowerArchiver 2023 to my users. Can you tell us when the MSI will be available for download and distribution?
Thanks.
Just tried using the Modern (Windows 10) Icon set and seeing a few missing icons in both PowerArchiver Burner and PowerArchiver Encryption screens . They are all there in the Minimalistik icon set and the only difference I can see is the former is blue and the latter grey. In version 22.00.9
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Hi there,
there were some security issues fixed in 7zip:
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-1165/
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-1164/
As it seems, that PowerArchiver and PACL use the 7zip libraries, could you please update them to the latest version?
Hi,
From where I get PAVD2023.EXE? PowerArchiver 2023 tries to open it.
But it seems, it tries to download PAVD2021.EXE.
Thanks
I noticed that the version of ZPAQ used is older than the latest released 7.15 https://mattmahoney.net/dc/zpaq.html also there seems to be a newer fork that adds several features https://github.com/fcorbelli/zpaqfranz
It would be useful to implement this latest version (it also maintains the same syntax and behavior as the latest official release if used the -715 flag) and add when opening a zpaq file a choice of the version of the files to show (e.g. as dummy folders represented the various versions present). Since any previous changes are stored with this format, it is possible to extract a snapshot of a certain date/version.
If I open a password-protected zipper file (created with WinRAR but I think that’s irrelevant), open it with PowerArchiver and run “Remove Encryption” on the same file, then reopen it and add a password with “Encrypt Archive,” the resulting archive will be protected with the old ZipCrypto algorithm and not AES as indicated.
(this can be verified, for example, by trying to open the archive files with Windows Explorer, which does not support the AES algorithm)
PA 21.00.18 running on Windows 7 64 bit.
I made a big .PA file and thought I’d check it was made correctly with Menu / Actions / Test.
Discovered:
a) PA always issues a UAC prompt to do this!
b) PA always says there are many errors in PA files.
Encrypting files in PAE doesn't always hide names
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Here is a weird bug. It’s hit or miss. Sometimes I can produce it sometimes I can’t.
Take an file (I use a wma) and PAE it up with the hide file names option.
Now open the PAE and provide the wrong password.
Sometimes the file names are not encrypted fully.
Look at the picture. On the right side is the full name of the file. As you can see even though the file was encrypted the name was not fully obscured.Is the extension supposed to be showing?
Bug or feature? :DMame
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nice… we will take a lot, it is due to specific filename
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This is because PA creates encrypted file of
fixed string “ENCRYPTED”
plus
all after first dot (filename.ext).
If it is .7z, then hidden filename is encrypted.7z.
If it is .tar.gz, then hidden filename is encrypted.tar.gz.This is very important if you want to save file format, otherwise PA cannot know what is the file format. I don’t see other way of doing this.
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Isn’t it possible to have the original stored within the encrypted file.
Like say the file is “John G. Homes.doc”.
The full name of the file would be stored and renamed to.
“Encrypted.file”
Once the proper password is given the old name is restored. The people opening the file with the wrong password should not even know the extension of the file contained within if the file names are hidden.The rar format incorporated the “Encrypt File names” option and if giving the wrong password you don’t get to know anything about the contents of the archive at all. Not the file extension not anything.
If the file was always encrypted to “Encrypted.file” it would not help anyone at all if they got their hands on it.Is that possible?
Mame
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This cannot be done now - maybe for future versions.
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Cool :D
Thanks
Mame
