archiver-zip-encryptable

An extension for archiver to zip with password encryption.

This extension adds some formats to handle encryption to archiver.
Currently this package supports only creating zip with traditional PKWARE encryption.

Install

npm install archiver-zip-encryptable --save

Usage

Call archiver.registerFormat() to register this module to archiver, then archive with password.

var fs = require('fs');
var archiver = require('archiver');

archiver.registerFormat('zip-encryptable', require('archiver-zip-encryptable'));

var output = fs.createWriteStream(__dirname + '/example.zip');

var archive = archiver('zip-encryptable', {
    zlib: { level: 9 },
    forceLocalTime: true,
    password: 'test'
});
archive.pipe(output);

archive.append(Buffer.from('Hello World'), { name: 'test.txt' });
archive.append(Buffer.from('Good Bye'), { name: 'test2.txt' });

archive.finalize();

Credits

• yeka/zip - password protected zip, Golang implementation
• .ZIP File Format Specification

License

MIT