Rar5: IArchiveEntryExtensions WriteTo does not write to stream in 0.33 (RarArchive)

[olegfeferman]

Hello,

I am trying to write a piece of code that verifies if user entered a correct password in case archive was password protected like this:

        using (var archive = RarArchive.Open(archiveFile, new ReaderOptions() { Password = pass }))
        {
            var entry = archive.Entries.FirstOrDefault(e => !e.IsDirectory);

            using (var stream = new MemoryStream( (int) entry.Size))
            {                    
                entry.WriteTo(stream);                                        
                if (stream.Length == 0)
                {
                    ShowMessage("You have entered incorrect password.");
                }
            }
        }

Problem is stream is always zero. Either it is a bug or I am doing something wrong.

[Erior]

What does entry.Size say for the difference scenarios you test?

[olegfeferman]

It reports correct size in bytes of that entry

[Erior]

I don't think you actually know if the password is correct until you try to decompress, that would give you a size, however it would be the wrong size / CRC, comparing the result with entry.Size would make more sense. Btw, when I try this with encrypted header info, it throw an exception, you might need to catch that if you have such files.

I tested your code snippet as a test with the archive "Rar.encrypted_filesOnly.rar". At least with that encrypted test file I got stream.Length

[olegfeferman]

Thank you for the feedback. When I test with Rar.encrypted_filesAndHeader.rar or Rar.encrypted_filesOnly.rar it works OK (in first case I get exception in second stream.Length is greater than 0). What I did not realize before you sent your message is that I am only having problem with Rar5.encrypted_filesAndHeader.rar and Rar5.encrypted_filesOnly.rar. Actually before I was just testing with a test archive that I created with latest version of Winrar (6.23).

[adamhathcock]

RAR5 decryption is a known TODO: https://github.com/adamhathcock/sharpcompress#todos-always-lots

Dup of https://github.com/adamhathcock/sharpcompress/issues/372

[olegfeferman]

I didn't know. Thank you!