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OpenTDF writers store both TDF entries (0.payload and the manifest) uncompressed, and that does not change here. Some other ZTDF/TDF writers deflate those entries (ZIP compression method 8). ZipReader read the compression method and then ignored it, returning a deflated entry's raw compressed bytes as its contents, so a deflated TDF failed later with a misleading error (for a deflated manifest, a Gson JsonSyntaxException). This PR lets the reader handle those archives:

  • Writers are unchanged. ZipWriter/TDFWriter still emit STORED entries, and their output is byte-for-byte the same.
  • Accepted methods: 0 (stored, same behavior as before) and 8 (raw DEFLATE, via java.util.zip.Inflater with nowrap=true).
  • Rejected methods: anything else (bzip2 12, deflate64 9, LZMA 14, zstd 93, AE-x 99, ...) throws InvalidZipException("unsupported compression method N for entry [name]; only stored (0) and deflate (8) are supported"). The check runs when an entry is read or checked, not while the central directory is parsed. That way listing an archive (and SDK.isTDF) still works, and an extra entry the reader never opens can't disqualify the archive. TDFReader checks the payload entry when it is constructed but doesn't open it (see Lifecycle), so an unreadable payload is refused before any KAS call. A manifest with an unsupported method fails on the first manifest() read.

Design

Sizes come from the central directory. That includes the zip64 extra field, which was already parsed. Entry now keeps the compression method, the compressed size and the uncompressed size. The compressed size limits how many bytes are read from the archive, and the uncompressed size is the logical length. Local-header sizes are ignored, so archives from streaming writers (data descriptor, zeros in the local header) work too. The stored path is the same code as before, now in a helper.

Size budget for deflated entries. A deflated entry may not declare an uncompressed size larger than max(archive length, 10 MiB). The floor is the named constant ZipReader.DEFLATED_SIZE_BUDGET_FLOOR.

  • An entry over budget is rejected before any data is inflated: deflated entry [name] declares an uncompressed size of N bytes, more than its budget of B bytes (...).
  • The budget applies to every deflated entry, manifest and payload. A legitimate deflated payload is ciphertext, which doesn't compress, so it never declares more than the archive holds. The floor leaves room for a manifest that compresses well.
  • The inflater never produces more than the declared size, so bounding the declaration bounds inflation. A ~16 KiB archive can no longer turn into a 16 MiB manifest held in memory.
  • There is no new public configuration. A configurable manifest cap like the Go SDK's WithMaxManifestSize is a possible follow-up.

Zip-bomb rules inside the budget (deflated entries):

  • Each read asks the inflater for at most the declared bytes still left, so nothing past the declared size ever reaches the caller's buffer.
  • When the declared size is reached, the deflate stream also has to end there. The reader probes for one more byte; if there is one, it throws ... holds more data than its declared uncompressed size of N.
  • If the stream ends before the declared size: ... ended after X bytes, but its declared uncompressed size is N.
  • If the compressed bytes run out first, or the deflate data is corrupt, it throws InvalidZipException; for corrupt data the cause is the DataFormatException.
  • A zip64 size of 2^63 or more (negative once read as a signed long) is refused as out of range.
  • Bytes after the end of the deflate stream but inside the declared compressed size are ignored, as java.util.zip.ZipFile, Go's archive/zip and Python's zipfile do. They are never inflated.
  • Like ZipFile, the reader feeds zlib one padding byte when the compressed data runs out (see the Inflater(boolean) javadoc). If that byte produces any output, the entry is treated as truncated, so a made-up byte never reaches the caller.

Payload streaming. In this SDK, reading the payload is sequential. TDFReader reads 0.payload through one stream, and TDF.Reader.readPayload reads the segments in manifest order. Nothing reads by offset. So a deflated payload is inflated as it is read, one forward pass with an 8 KiB input buffer, and it is never held in memory as a whole. Because there is no random access, the reader needs no logic to restart from the entry start or skip forward. Each read sets the shared channel's position itself, so the manifest can be read again while the payload stream is part way through. Thread-safety is unchanged.

Payload inflater lifecycle.

  • The payload stream is opened on the first payload read, not in the TDFReader constructor. So SDK.readManifest, loadTDF, and a load that fails never allocate a payload inflater.
  • The constructor still calls a new package-private Entry.checkReadable(), which runs every check getData() makes (method, sizes and budget, local header) without opening a stream.
  • TDF.Reader.readPayload releases the payload in a finally block, so it is freed on success and on any failure: a read error, an integrity or decrypt failure, or a write error in the caller's OutputStream.
  • TDFReader.readPayloadBytes also releases the payload itself when a read fails.
  • After release, payload reads return nothing. That keeps today's behavior for a second readPayload call, which fails with "unable to read bytes for segment".
  • A deflated manifest's inflater is released as soon as manifest() returns, via try-with-resources.
  • No public close method was added. The payload is open only during readPayload and is always released before it returns, so nothing is left for a caller to close. Making the public TDF.Reader AutoCloseable would add public API and turn every existing caller into a resource-leak warning.
  • Added package-private: TDFReader.finishPayload() and TDFReader.closePayload().

End-of-payload verification. readPayload reads exactly the segment lengths the manifest lists, so by itself it never looked past them. After the last segment it now calls TDFReader.finishPayload(). For a deflated payload, this requires the end of the entry: one more read must return end-of-stream, and for an inflating stream that read also runs the end-of-deflate-stream check. Otherwise it throws InvalidZipException:

  • If the payload inflates past its declared size (the case where it inflates to hello! while declaring 5 bytes and has a valid segment hash for hello): ... holds more data than its declared uncompressed size of 5.
  • If the payload holds data inside its declared size but past the last segment: ... holds data past the end of the TDF's last segment.

Stored payloads keep their current behavior: nothing past the last segment is examined.

No CRC-32 check. The CRC is not verified. A TDF's integrity comes from the per-segment hashes and the root signature, which are checked over the inflated payload bytes, and from the policy binding and assertion signatures in the manifest. A CRC-32 is not a tamper check: anyone who can change the bytes can recompute it. It would catch only accidental corruption, and the segment hashes already catch that in the payload. It would also need a separate path for streaming writers, whose CRC is only in the data descriptor.

Public API. The only change is an additive InvalidZipException(String, Throwable) constructor. Everything else new is package-private:

  • Entry getters for the method and sizes, and Entry.checkReadable();
  • TDFReader.finishPayload() / closePayload();
  • ZipReader.inflatersCreated() / openInflaters(). These are two static counters that the tests use to check the inflater lifecycle.

Tests

The new tests were written first and failed against the reader before each change. For example, the first end-to-end test failed with JsonSyntaxException. In the review round, the budget, lifecycle and end-of-payload tests each failed before their fix (the hello! case decrypted silently).

  • TDFTest:
    • testDecryptingATDFWithDeflatedEntries: takes a multi-segment TDF this SDK wrote, repacks it with java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream, and decrypts it end to end with the test KAS. It covers both entries deflated under manifest.json and under 0.manifest.json, the manifest deflated alone, and the payload deflated alone.
    • testDeflatedPayloadWithDataPastTheLastSegmentIsRejected: real ciphertext plus one byte, with valid segment hashes, declared as the ciphertext length (inflates past the declared size) and as one more (data past the last segment). Both are rejected on the normal readPayload path.
    • testStoredPayloadWithDataPastTheLastSegmentIsStillRead: stored behavior is unchanged.
    • testPayloadInflaterExistsOnlyWhileThePayloadIsRead: SDK.readManifest and loadTDF create no payload inflater; exactly one is open while plaintext is written, and none after.
    • testFailedLoadLeavesNoInflaterBehind: a KAS allowlist rejection inflates only the manifest and leaves nothing open.
    • testPayloadInflaterIsReleasedWhenAReadFails: a corrupted ciphertext makes the read fail, and the inflater is released.
  • TDFReaderTest:
    • a 16 MiB-of-zeros deflated manifest in an archive under 64 KiB is rejected by SDK.readManifest before any inflater is created;
    • a deflated payload declaring more than the budget is rejected when the reader is constructed;
    • manifest-only reads create no payload inflater;
    • the inflater is released by finishPayload() and by a failed read;
    • interleaved payload and manifest reads with both entries deflated;
    • unsupported methods on the payload and on the manifest.
  • ZipReaderTest (archives built with commons-compress and java.util.zip; sizes and methods patched in the central directory):
    • the budget: over-budget rejected before inflating; exactly 10 MiB accepted; above 10 MiB the budget is the archive length, so a 10.5 MiB entry next to 11 MiB of padding is read, and a declaration of archive length + 1 is rejected;
    • deflated round trip; stored and deflated entries mixed, including empty ones; deflated zip64 entries; data descriptors; single-byte reads; interleaved streams;
    • unsupported methods; declared size smaller than the real data (exact bytes delivered, no buffer overrun); a zip bomb that understates its size, within the budget; declared size larger than the real data; truncated and corrupt data; out-of-range zip64 sizes; reading a closed stream.

Test plan

Commands from .github/workflows/checks.yaml (mavenverify job), run locally on Homebrew OpenJDK 21 / Maven 3.10.0. Sonar was not run.

mvn --batch-mode clean generate-sources                                   # BUILD SUCCESS
mvn --batch-mode verify -Dmaven.antrun.skip -P 'coverage,non-fips,!fips'  # BUILD SUCCESS: Tests run: 361, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 8

FIPS step (sdk-fips-bc installed into a scratch local repository layered over ~/.m2): Tests run: 322, Failures: 0, Errors: 36, Skipped: 3.

  • All 36 errors are a known local environment issue: Mockito's inline mock maker can't self-attach its agent under the FIPS java.security config on this machine.
  • They hit only the classes that create mocks (AutoconfigureTest, DiscoveryTest, PlannerTest, SDKTest, TDFTest), and unmodified main gives the same error. CI's FIPS job passed on the previous commit.
  • ZipReaderTest (36) and TDFReaderTest (18) pass under FIPS.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added support for reading ZIP archives with stored, deflated, mixed, and ZIP64 entries.
    • Improved compatibility with compressed manifests and payloads.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Added validation for truncated, corrupted, oversized, unsupported, or size-mismatched compressed data.
    • Detects unexpected trailing payload data.
    • Ensures manifest and payload resources are released reliably after successful or failed reads.
    • Improved error reporting when archive or payload processing fails.

OpenTDF writers store TDF entries uncompressed, but other ZTDF/TDF
writers may deflate the manifest or the payload. ZipReader ignored the
compression method and returned a deflated entry's raw compressed bytes
as its contents, so such a TDF failed later with a misleading manifest
parse or segment error.

ZipReader now inflates entries that use method 8 (raw DEFLATE) and
refuses every method other than 0 and 8 with an InvalidZipException
that names the entry and the method. Entries keep both sizes from the
central directory, zip64 extra fields included: the compressed size
bounds what is read from the archive and the uncompressed size bounds
what is inflated. A deflated entry that inflates to more or less than
its declared size is rejected, so a small entry cannot expand past what
it declares. Inflation is incremental, so a deflated payload is never
held in memory as a whole.

Writers are unchanged and still emit stored entries. The CRC-32 is not
checked: TDF integrity is verified by the segment hashes and the root
signature over the inflated bytes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Flynn <pflynn-virtru@users.noreply.github.com>
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The SDK now reads stored and raw-deflate ZIP entries. TDF payload reads open streams lazily, validate deflated completion, and release streams after successful or failed reads.

Changes: ZIP and TDF reading

Layer / File(s) Summary
Compression-aware ZIP entry reading
sdk/src/main/java/io/opentdf/platform/sdk/InvalidZipException.java, sdk/src/main/java/io/opentdf/platform/sdk/ZipReader.java, sdk/src/test/java/io/opentdf/platform/sdk/ZipReaderTest.java
ZIP entries retain compression and size metadata. The reader supports stored and raw-deflate entries, enforces declared-size limits, and rejects unsupported, corrupt, truncated, or mismatched data.
TDF payload lifecycle
sdk/src/main/java/io/opentdf/platform/sdk/TDF.java, sdk/src/main/java/io/opentdf/platform/sdk/TDFReader.java, sdk/src/test/java/io/opentdf/platform/sdk/TDFReaderTest.java
TDF payload streams open on demand, validate completion after segment reads, and close after completion or failure. Manifest reads close their streams automatically.
TDF compression and lifecycle validation
sdk/src/test/java/io/opentdf/platform/sdk/TDFTest.java
Tests cover stored and deflated TDF entries, extra payload data, lazy inflater creation, and inflater cleanup during successful and failed reads.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant TDF
  participant TDFReader
  participant ZipReader
  participant InflatingInputStream
  TDF->>TDFReader: Read payload segments
  TDFReader->>ZipReader: Open payload entry lazily
  ZipReader->>InflatingInputStream: Inflate raw-deflate data
  InflatingInputStream-->>TDFReader: Return validated payload bytes
  TDF->>TDFReader: Finish payload validation
  TDFReader-->>TDF: Release payload stream
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A deflated entry's inflation was bounded only by the uncompressed size
it declared, so a small archive could make the reader buffer a manifest
a thousand times its size before validating it. A deflated entry may
now declare no more than the larger of the archive's length and 10 MiB
(DEFLATED_SIZE_BUDGET_FLOOR), and one that declares more is rejected
before anything is inflated. This applies to the payload as well as the
manifest: a deflated payload is ciphertext, which does not compress, so
a legitimate one never declares more than the archive holds.

TDFReader opened the payload stream in its constructor, so a deflated
payload's inflater was allocated by manifest-only reads and failed
loads, and released only by garbage collection. The payload is now
opened by the first payload read and released when readPayload ends,
whether it succeeds or fails. The constructor still checks the payload
entry, without opening it, so an unreadable payload is refused before
any key is requested.

readPayload read exactly the manifest's segment lengths and returned,
so a deflated payload that held more data than it declared, or data
past its last segment, was accepted. After the last segment a deflated
payload must now be at its end. Stored payloads are unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Flynn <pflynn-virtru@users.noreply.github.com>
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Bring in main's zip reader and writer hardening alongside deflate
support. Conflicts were limited to imports in ZipReaderTest. In
ZipReader:

- The entry data stream that main hardened against truncated archives
  is now the shared channel stream, used for a stored entry's data and
  for a deflated entry's compressed bytes. Its truncation message
  reports the bytes the entry occupies in the archive, which for a
  deflated entry is its compressed size.
- The negative zip64 size check at central directory parse time now
  covers the compressed size as well as the uncompressed size, and
  replaces the separate negative-size check deflate support had added
  in getData, so there is one check for both.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Flynn <pflynn-virtru@users.noreply.github.com>
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sdk/src/main/java/io/opentdf/platform/sdk/TDF.java: 1

411-411: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Extract the per-segment check from readSegments to fix the Sonar failure.

SonarCloud reports readSegments at Cognitive Complexity 16. The allowed limit is 15. This PR extracted the method, so Sonar treats the method as new code. The report can therefore count against the quality gate. Move the hash verification and the decryption into a helper that returns the bytes to write. The behavior does not change.

♻️ Proposed extraction
         private void readSegments(OutputStream outputStream, MessageDigest digest) throws IOException {
             for (Manifest.Segment segment : manifest.encryptionInformation.integrityInformation.segments) {
                 byte[] readBuf = new byte[(int) segment.encryptedSegmentSize];
                 int bytesRead = tdfReader.readPayloadBytes(readBuf);
 
                 if (readBuf.length != bytesRead) {
                     throw new IllegalStateException("unable to read bytes for segment (wanted "
                             + segment.encryptedSegmentSize + " but got " + bytesRead + ")");
                 }
-
-                var isLegacyTdf = ...
-                if (manifest.payload.isEncrypted) {
-                    ...
-                } else {
-                    ...
-                }
+                outputStream.write(verifyAndDecryptSegment(segment, readBuf, digest));
             }
         }
+
+        private byte[] verifyAndDecryptSegment(Manifest.Segment segment, byte[] readBuf, MessageDigest digest) {
+            // move the existing isEncrypted / legacy hash checks here unchanged,
+            // and return the decrypted bytes or readBuf
+        }
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Review comment at @sdk/src/main/java/io/opentdf/platform/sdk/TDF.java at line
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Extract the per-segment hash verification and decryption logic from readSegments
into a private verifyAndDecryptSegment method that accepts the segment, buffer,
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