On a recent “fun” project, I needed my application to be able to access password-protected zip files of a particular format. It was one of these features I thought will take me no time to implement. Anyway, to my surprise, neither JDK supports password-protected ZIP files, nor I was able to find a suitable Java open source library I could use for that purpose. So, I ended up writing the utility class on my own. I wrote an implementation of java.io.InputStream that filters the ZIP file data and turns a password-protected ZIP into an unprotected one on the fly – so the stream can be nicely chained with java.util.zip.ZipInputStream. Although the class is specifically targeted at the particular type of ZIP files I had to deal with (see the limitations below), maybe other people have to deal with the same type of files, or this class can provide a good start for others to turn it into a utility that would work with any type of ZIP (maybe I will do it myself some day – for now I don’t have time).
To implement this class I used the ZIP File Format Specification as the source of information. I also used the 7-zip project (C++) as a reference during the debugging to verify my understanding of the ZIP spec. and the CRC algorithm.
So, here is the class:

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

public class ZipDecryptInputStream extends InputStream {
    private static final int[] CRC_TABLE = new int[256];
    // compute the table
    // (could also have it pre-computed - see http://snippets.dzone.com/tag/crc32)
    static {
        for (int i = 0; i < 256; i++) {
            int r = i;
            for (int j = 0; j < 8; j++) {
                if ((r & 1) == 1) {
                    r = (r >>> 1) ^ 0xedb88320;
                } else {
                    r >>>= 1;
                }
            }
            CRC_TABLE[i] = r;
        }
    }

    private static final int DECRYPT_HEADER_SIZE = 12;
    private static final int[] LFH_SIGNATURE = {0x50, 0x4b, 0x03, 0x04};

    private final InputStream delegate;
    private final String password;
    private final int keys[] = new int[3];

    private State state = State.SIGNATURE;
    private int skipBytes;
    private int compressedSize;
    private int value;
    private int valuePos;
    private int valueInc;

    public ZipDecryptInputStream(InputStream stream, String password) {
        this.delegate = stream;
        this.password = password;
    }

    @Override
    public int read() throws IOException {
        int result = delegate.read();
        if (skipBytes == 0) {
            switch (state) {
                case SIGNATURE:
                    if (result != LFH_SIGNATURE[valuePos]) {
                        state = State.TAIL;
                    } else {
                        valuePos++;
                        if (valuePos >= LFH_SIGNATURE.length) {
                            skipBytes = 2;
                            state = State.FLAGS;
                        }
                    }
                    break;
                case FLAGS:
                    if ((result & 1) == 0) {
                        throw new IllegalStateException("ZIP not password protected.");
                    }
                    if ((result & 64) == 64) {
                        throw new IllegalStateException("Strong encryption used.");
                    }
                    if ((result & 8) == 8) {
                        throw new IllegalStateException("Unsupported ZIP format.");
                    }
                    result -= 1;
                    compressedSize = 0;
                    valuePos = 0;
                    valueInc = DECRYPT_HEADER_SIZE;
                    state = State.COMPRESSED_SIZE;
                    skipBytes = 11;
                    break;
                case COMPRESSED_SIZE:
                    compressedSize += result << (8 * valuePos);
                    result -= valueInc;
                    if (result < 0) {
                        valueInc = 1;
                        result += 256;
                    } else {
                        valueInc = 0;
                    }
                    valuePos++;
                    if (valuePos > 3) {
                        valuePos = 0;
                        value = 0;
                        state = State.FN_LENGTH;
                        skipBytes = 4;
                    }
                    break;
                case FN_LENGTH:
                case EF_LENGTH:
                    value += result << 8 * valuePos;
                    if (valuePos == 1) {
                        valuePos = 0;
                        if (state == State.FN_LENGTH) {
                            state = State.EF_LENGTH;
                        } else {
                            state = State.HEADER;
                            skipBytes = value;
                        }
                    } else {
                        valuePos = 1;
                    }
                    break;
                case HEADER:
                    initKeys(password);
                    for (int i = 0; i < DECRYPT_HEADER_SIZE; i++) {
                        updateKeys((byte) (result ^ decryptByte()));
                        result = delegate.read();
                    }
                    compressedSize -= DECRYPT_HEADER_SIZE;
                    state = State.DATA;
                    // intentionally no break
                case DATA:
                    result = (result ^ decryptByte()) & 0xff;
                    updateKeys((byte) result);
                    compressedSize--;
                    if (compressedSize == 0) {
                        valuePos = 0;
                        state = State.SIGNATURE;
                    }
                    break;
                case TAIL:
                    // do nothing
            }
        } else {
            skipBytes--;
        }
        return result;
    }

    @Override
    public void close() throws IOException {
        delegate.close();
        super.close();
    }

    private void initKeys(String password) {
        keys[0] = 305419896;
        keys[1] = 591751049;
        keys[2] = 878082192;
        for (int i = 0; i < password.length(); i++) {
            updateKeys((byte) (password.charAt(i) & 0xff));
        }
    }

    private void updateKeys(byte charAt) {
        keys[0] = crc32(keys[0], charAt);
        keys[1] += keys[0] & 0xff;
        keys[1] = keys[1] * 134775813 + 1;
        keys[2] = crc32(keys[2], (byte) (keys[1] >> 24));
    }

    private byte decryptByte() {
        int temp = keys[2] | 2;
        return (byte) ((temp * (temp ^ 1)) >>> 8);
    }

    private int crc32(int oldCrc, byte charAt) {
        return ((oldCrc >>> 8) ^ CRC_TABLE[(oldCrc ^ charAt) & 0xff]);
    }

    private static enum State {
        SIGNATURE, FLAGS, COMPRESSED_SIZE, FN_LENGTH, EF_LENGTH, HEADER, DATA, TAIL
    }
}

These are the limitations:

  • Only the “Traditional PKWARE Encryption” is supported (spec. section VII)
  • Files that have the “compressed length” information at the end of the data section (rather than at the beginning) are not supported (see “general purpose bit flag”, bit 3 in section V, subsection J in the spec.)

And this is how you can use it in your code:

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
import java.util.zip.ZipInputStream;

// usage: java Main [filename] [password]
public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        // password-protected zip file I need to read
        FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(args[0]);
        // wrap it in the decrypt stream
        ZipDecryptInputStream zdis = new ZipDecryptInputStream(fis, args[1]);
        // wrap the decrypt stream by the ZIP input stream
        ZipInputStream zis = new ZipInputStream(zdis);

        // read all the zip entries and save them as files
        ZipEntry ze;
        while ((ze = zis.getNextEntry()) != null) {
            FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(ze.getName());
            int b;
            while ((b = zis.read()) != -1) {
                fos.write(b);
            }
            fos.close();
            zis.closeEntry();
        }
        zis.close();
    }
}