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Real examples here? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Friend who is not a software person sent me this tweet, which amused me as it did them. They asked if "runk" was real, which I assume not.

But what are some good examples of real ones like this? xz became famous for the hack of course, so i then read a bit about how important this compression algorithm is/was.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

xz seems like another good example

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'd put the deflate algorithm over the LZMA algorithm just because deflate is used by both windows (zip) and Unix (gzip). Windows I don't think has added LZMA/xz support until recently if at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I agree but windows does come with a version of tar preinstalled installed. I'm not sure if it uses xz though.

The reason I named xz though is the xz-utils backdoor that was such a big deal.