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Add support for electron ASAR archives

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Description

### Description
This is the format used by Electron apps.
This is defined here https://github.com/electron/asar
See these Python libs:
- @leovoel https://github.com/leovoel/BeautifulDiscord/blob/master/beautifuldiscord/asar.py
- @AS1337 https://github.com/AS1337/asarPy
- @Photonios https://github.com/Photonios/pyasar
- @minitech https://github.com/minitech/as2t

See also https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/1259

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