Version: 2.6.4 (using 3.5.9, compiled sources) Compiler: Target: i586-manbo-linux-gnu OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.24.4-desktop-1mnb It possible to create archives with password (i.e. encripted) with 7z command line archiver. Ark can't extract such archive by any way: there is not password request and not extraction occurs.
It relate to 7z archives with encripted headers (7z a -mhe=on -pQWERTY FILES.7z FILES) and with not encripted headers (7z a -pQWERTY FILES.7z FILES).
KDE4 ark's new 7zip plugin should be able to extract password protected files but not for encrypted headers yet.
SVN commit 883280 by ymchen: 7zip-plugin uses KPtyProcess to enable password querying. Now can list archives with encrypted headers (-mhe option) CCBUG: 165074 M +2 -0 kerfuffle/archivebase.cpp M +2 -0 part/archivemodel.cpp M +157 -45 plugins/7zipplugin/7zipplugin.cpp M +21 -0 plugins/7zipplugin/7zipplugin.h M +3 -0 plugins/7zipplugin/CMakeLists.txt WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=883280
tested working: created an encrypted file with: 7z a -mhe -p12345 encrypted.7z *.txt then it can be opened and extracted with ark