Add ability to open password-protected ZIPs

[joeyaiello]

Originally posted on Connect by Mark Wilson and now on UserVoice:

Please add a -Password switch to Expand-Archive so that it can open password-protected archive files. These files can currently be opened only through the GUI.

[megamorf]

I support this idea. The question is: are we really going to call it "Password" or "Credential"? Credential with its username is kind of ambiguous here. It should be accepted as secure string only either way.

[KirkMunro]

I think [-Password <SecureString>] makes more sense in this case.

[imposhster]

It's my understanding the underlying Windows OS doesn't support this and has always been enabled via third party tools like 7zip and WinZip, is my thinking invalid now?

[SteveL-MSFT]

@imposhster I believe you are correct that the libraries this module depends on doesn't support it

[soroshsabz]

ITNOA

I think for add this ability, we need first add this ability to dotnet framework, so we have request this feature in .Net community

[SteveL-MSFT]

It may be better to move to a 3rd party library that already supports passwords like https://github.com/icsharpcode/SharpZipLib which also supports gzip, tar, etc... and might also support zips larger than 4GB which is also a limiting factor with .NET's implementation

[soroshsabz]

@SteveL-MSFT So if you think this library stable enough, you can change Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive to use 3rd party open source library. I think this ability is very useful for powershell.

[SteveL-MSFT]

I haven't done enough analysis to determine if moving to SharpZipLib is the right decision. I'll leave that to @anmenaga. However, the limits of the .NET APIs is quite apparent.