What's New in PKZIP® Server
PKZIP Server contains the following changes and new
features, listed by release:
Version 14, Maintenance Release 2
- Specify OpenPGP keyring files. When extracting
OpenPGP files, custom keyring locations can now be specified on the
command line.
Version 14, Maintenance Release 1
- Improved support for long file
names in TAR archives. POSIX extensions now used for file
names with more than 255 characters.
- Improved support for handling OpenPGP files.
Supports reading ASCII comments included with OpenPGP files. Supports
opening OpenPGP files containing multiple user IDs and multiple
sub-keys.
Version 14
- Create and Extract OpenPGP files. Some
organizations use encryption tools based on the OpenPGP standard,
rather than X.509. PKZIP
extracts and decrypts files that comply with the OpenPGP standard, RFC
4880. PKZIP can create passphrase-based OpenPGP-compliant files.
You
can also use OpenPGP keys to decrypt data within ZIP
archives.
- Message Digest Display. Display
the
hash value (also called a "message digest") and CRC checksum for a
file using the messagedigest command.
This feature will help meet ONC Meaningful Use requirements.
- Digital Time Stamping for signed
archives. When
you need to establish not only who is responsible for a file or set of
files, but also when it was created, digital time stamping is a
critical service. PKZIP will verify existing time stamps.
- FastAES. Support for Intel®
processors that implement AES-NI. Other processors may
also gain from using a more optimized Advanced Encryption Standard
algorithm. FastAES is not available when using FIPS 140 mode.
- Installer for Ubuntu Linux.
PKZIP Server now runs on Ubuntu Linux, along with Red Hat Enterprise
Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
- Extract 7-Zip files and CD/DVD Data
Image files. PKZIP now extracts 7-Zip and three types of
files typically associated with CD and DVD data images: CDR, ISO, and
IMG.
Version 12, Maintenance Release 5
- Extract WavPack files within ZIP archives. Open
audio files compressed with this algorithm.
- Extract files from archives created on IBM z/OS using
hardware compression tools. PKZIP Server can extract these
files without special hardware.
- Changes in FIPS Mode. With FIPS mode selected,
files must be signed with the SHA-256 algorithm (or higher). Also will
not extract files encrypted with 112-bit (two-key) 3DES. These
algorithms are still available outside FIPS mode.
Version 12, Maintenance Release 4
- Full support for opening and extracting files with the
.zipx extension. PKZIP Server will work with ZIP archives
with the *.zipx extension.
Version 12
- Version command updated. The version
command has a new product suboption and now lists
major, minor, and step version numbers of theprogram and lists
major and minor version numbers and the build number of the product.
- .Z archive extraction. PKZIP Server can now
extract .Z archives.
- Extract path substitution. The
substitution option can now be used with extract
to extract multiple archives each into its own directory.
- LZMA and PPMd compression. New lzma
and ppmd options are added to support LZMA and PPMd
compression methods.
- Option to specify user (UID) and/or group (GID) for
archived files. A new owner option
enables a user to set UID and/or GID when adding files to an archive.
The super user can use the option when extracting files as well.
- ZDW extraction support. The translate
option has new suboptions for EBCDIC line-ending translation to
support extraction of mainframe data compressed using the SecureZIP
for z/OS Zip Descriptor Word (ZDW) option to preserve variable
length records.
- FIPS 140 compliant SFX engines. An SFX
(self-extracting) archive created in FIPS mode now remembers that it
is a FIPS SFX and applies FIPS-mode constraints when its files are
extracted.
- Path performance improvements. The directories
option now does pattern-matching on file names in a way that's faster
and more consistent with releases prior to version 8.4. When
processing a file specification that includes a path component, PKZIP
looks only within the specified folder for the pattern to match.
Versions 8.4 - 8.7 look for the entire file specification in all
subfolders of the current folder. To perform an 8.4-style search,
prefix the file specification with an asterisk "*".
Version 8 Maintenance Release 7
- FIPS mode option. A new fipsmode
option causes SecureZIP to use only FIPS-validated algorithms to
encrypt or decrypt files, email messages, and email attachments. FIPS is an abbreviation for Federal Information Processing Standards,
a set of standards for information processing in federal agencies.
Version 8 Maintenance Release 6
- Preserve international characters in file names and
comments. A new utf8 option enables UTF-8
characters in file names and file comments to be correctly displayed
when an archive's contents are viewed or extracted in compatible
non-UTF-8 locales.
Version 8 Maintenance Release 5
- Streaming archive creation/extraction. Theadd
command can write archives to special files such as named pipes and
(UNIX) domain sockets. Similarly, theextract, test,
andview commands can read archives from these same
sources and from STDIN.
- Trusted extraction. A newverifySigner
option constrains PKZIP to extract only archives signed using a
certificate specified with the option. The option protects against
being fooled by a valid signature made using a different certificate
from the one that actually belongs to your expected correspondent.
- Embed a timestamp in archive names. A newsubstitution
option works with the add command to embed a
timestamp in the name of a new or updated archive. You construct the
timestamp using tokens for such elements as day, month, year. The
tokens are replaced by values when the command line is run.
- Wipe option renamed shred. Thewipe
option for securely overwriting deleted files is renamed shred
and has a new dod5220 sub-option that overwrites files three
times, to the DOD 5220.22-M specification.
- Set timeout period for working with archives on special
files (UNIX). A new timeout option
enables you to set a number of seconds for PKZIP to wait for another
process to send or be ready to receive on a named pipe, socket, or
block device.
Version 8 Maintenance Release 4
- Create archives to STDOUT. The add
command can now output archives to STDOUT instead of to a file.
- Translate line endings when adding. Thetranslate
option can now be used when adding to an archive as well as when
extracting, to translate line endings for a specified platform.
- Create multiple, respective archives. A newarchiveeach
option creates and names a separate archive for each of multiple files
specified in a single command line.
- Behavior change for newer andolder.
These options now behave as in version 6.0 when using a time unit of
days: They now measure the interval (for example, five days) from the
beginning of the current day (midnight) instead of from the current
time.
- Must run as root to enter license keys. Now only
the superuser can run the enterlicensekey command.
Licenses are no longer read in users' home directories.
- Embedded wildcard characters. PKZIP now handles
wildcard characters embedded in filenames.
- Behavior change for configuring silent option.
Configuring the silent option no longer produces an
interactive confirmation message. The change makes it easier to
configure silent in scripts.
- New silent suboption for configuration
command. The configuration command now
has asilent suboption to suppress default display of
the list of configuration settings when the command is used.
Version 8 Maintenance Release 3
- New crl option. Warns if a certificate appears on
an accessible list of revoked certificates.
- PKCertTool enhanced. The PKCertTool utility for
setting up certificate stores on UNIX/Linux systems has new export and
view commands. Other commands have a new option for working with
certificate revocation lists.
- TAR file processing. Several problems with
processing TAR files corrected.
Version 8 Maintenance Release 1
- Bug fixes:
-
- PKZIP could not extract some archives containing
encrypted file names
- Problem with display of language strings could
result in incorrect message display or crash
- PKZIP tried to create an archive whenpreview
option used with add command
- Was possible to create self-extracting (SFX)
archives having smaller segments than target platform supported
Version 8
- SNMP traps. You can use a newsnmpTrapHost
option to specify an SNMP host to receive SNMP traps. PKZIP can send
traps to report application startup, shutdown, error and warning
conditions, or results of normal operations.
- Set execution priority. A newpriority
option enables you to change the priority of execution of PKZIP
relative to other applications.
- Date/time display format. New sub-options make
thelocale option easier to configure and use.
- Certificate store facility. A utility program
PKCertTool is supplied free for use on UNIX/Linux to set up stores for
digital certificates for PKZIP Server to use. The program creates and
maintains certificate store databases and copies your certificates
into the stores.
- FTP integration. A new ftp
option transfers a new or existing archive to another system by FTP.
(Requires the optional Enhanced Data Processing Module.)
- E-mail integration. New mail…
options transfer a new or existing archive to other people by email.
(Requires the optional Enhanced Data Processing Module.)
- New options for self-extracting ZIP files.
Several new options—SFXDestination, SFXDirectories, SFXOverwrite, and
SFXUIType—give you more control over the type and behavior of
self-extracting (SFX) ZIP files you create. (Requires the optional
Enhanced Data Processing Module.)
- Antivirus integration. New avscan
and avargs options enable you to run an external
antivirus program when you extract files to scan for viruses in the
destination folder and its subfolders.
- Syslog integration. New optionsErrorLog,
JobID, Log, and LogOptions
enable you to log records of warnings, errors, and normal operations
to STDOUT, STDERR, the native system logging facility (syslog) for
your platform, or to a file.
- Encrypt file names. A new cd
option can be used to encrypt file names in an archive. The option
strongly encrypts an archive's central directory, where file names and
virtually all other metadata about the archive is stored. (Requires
SecureZIP Server.)
- Alternate configuration file. A newaltconfig
option enables you to use an alternate configuration file for special
purposes. Specify the file in a command line to temporarily apply
special default command or option settings for the current command.
- Movearchive option. A newmovearchive
option deletes unwanted intermediate archives when you encode an
archive to a different type—for example, a TAR archive to a GZIP
archive—or transfer an archive by FTP.
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