That's odd. I'm going to be releasing a new patch version soon, just fixing minor docblock issues so that our static analysis tests pass.

Please try again with v2.0.11 and let me know if you're encountering the same or a similar error. Thanks.

I’m so sorry, but I am still getting a very similar error:

ERROR: manifest length read was "42533" should be "655360"

The second number sure looks like exactly the maximum signed 32-bit integer, times ten…

There may be something messed up about my PHP environment, not your PHP Archive. I’m on DreamHost, for what it’s worth. And as a former PHP developer who hasn’t touched it very much in years, this is actually the first time I have tried using a .phar file. Heck, I hadn’t heard of it before.

I’m also on macOS, if that’s relevant. I uploaded these files with Transmit.

What do you get when you run these commands? It's possible that the files got corrupted.

sha256sum random_compat.*
sha384sum random_compat.*

Expected output:

scott@paragonie-test:/mnt/share/random_compat/dist$ sha256sum ./*
725aaede348d566bab76e1942f52a2d35c379ecb4e7ad92a844f822c0eb3a913  ./random_compat.phar
8a02cf9db52b09b0afe04f3e812785c2a9854951bec0c31568a13b82d4870005  ./random_compat.phar.pubkey
3c55e651398d15479bcb279fba8e30d8c43155834cfdb5fecb62e61c9fd79f33  ./random_compat.phar.pubkey.asc
scott@paragonie-test:/mnt/share/random_compat/dist$ sha384sum ./*
ff97ba33c7567e6ae80c2a34a55f2ee0c5ebc650696958919a5e42fafe67927ba5dcf67f93f38ce6d0ba603734d6fd12  ./random_compat.phar
cc870eb73c57e2bae957954b4c987dcc68f756f9c7a5c7ddf0f3e70e3884e6ac0008ed2383dc67d84baf09c177b8ea74  ./random_compat.phar.pubkey
c66af4d8d3af2bef54a4aba1091c893dda8dfeafa1defffbd15a87e4a12c2b987a1816f2bfd38609ed2c1d57867caa17  ./random_compat.phar.pubkey.asc

I'm not familiar with Mac OS at all. Is Transmit an FTP client? It could be an ASCII/binary mode disagreement problem, or else it's doing something to your files in the interim.

Ran this on Dreamhost:

shasum -a 256  random_compat.phar random_compat.phar.pubkey random_compat.phar.pubkey.asc
725aaede348d566bab76e1942f52a2d35c379ecb4e7ad92a844f822c0eb3a913  random_compat.phar
8a02cf9db52b09b0afe04f3e812785c2a9854951bec0c31568a13b82d4870005  random_compat.phar.pubkey
3c55e651398d15479bcb279fba8e30d8c43155834cfdb5fecb62e61c9fd79f33  random_compat.phar.pubkey.asc

shasum -a 384  random_compat.phar random_compat.phar.pubkey random_compat.phar.pubkey.asc
ff97ba33c7567e6ae80c2a34a55f2ee0c5ebc650696958919a5e42fafe67927ba5dcf67f93f38ce6d0ba603734d6fd12  random_compat.phar
cc870eb73c57e2bae957954b4c987dcc68f756f9c7a5c7ddf0f3e70e3884e6ac0008ed2383dc67d84baf09c177b8ea74  random_compat.phar.pubkey
c66af4d8d3af2bef54a4aba1091c893dda8dfeafa1defffbd15a87e4a12c2b987a1816f2bfd38609ed2c1d57867caa17  random_compat.phar.pubkey.asc

And yet, I still get the same error

Okay, at this point, I'd say contact DreamHost support and point them to this ticket. Something else must be going wrong, and I don't have any means to diagnose it from here.

This error message might occur if you haven't enabled phar. I guess this is normal on some hosts.

See this Dreamhost guide for modifing your php configuration at Dreamhost (i have not tested).

For standard php installation

Create a 99-custom.ini* file inside the directory found with this command: php -i | grep "Scan this dir for additional".

Add this line: extension=phar.so

* The filename can be whatever you choose, just end with .ini

Found this thread via google while having issue with my Synology. Just want to help if someone else stumble over here too