Collaborate Disseminate
The amount of data that the big cloud computing providers now store is staggering, so it’s no surprise that most store all of this information as compressed data in some form or another — just like you used to zip your files back in the days of floppy disks, CD-ROMs and low-bandwidth connections. Typically, those […] Continue reading Microsoft open sources its data compression algorithm and hardware for the cloud
Solitaire is a method for encrypting messages by hand. Reading it though, the only advantage the Solitaire has over a one time pad is that it can encrypt longer messages. It requires a new, random key for each message, just l… Continue reading What method to compress English by hand has the highest compression ratio?
A Zip bomb (concept here) seems quite a “smart” and easy vulnerability to websites where uploading ZIP files is allowed. Such sites are under a threat (at least to make some degree of damage to them) – someone uploads i.e. a … Continue reading How to protect websites against ZIP bombs and reference bombs?
If you have noticed an icon with 2 small blue overlays, then know that it has been placed there by…
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Sharing large files with friends, families, and even business associates over the web is no easy…
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While earlier smartphones seemed to manage well enough with individual applications that only weighed in at a few megabytes, a perusal of the modern smartphone software store uncovers some positively monstrous file sizes. The fact that we’ve become accustomed to mobile applications requiring 100+ MB downloads on what’s often a metered Internet connection in only a few short years is pretty crazy if you stop to think about it.
Seeing reports that the Nest app for iOS tipped the scales at nearly 250 MB, [Alexandre Colucci] decided to investigate. On his blog he not only documents the process of taking …read more
Continue reading Does Library Bloat Make Your Smartphone App Look Fat?
Using compression utilities, is it possible to create an archive that when extracted, will place certain files in certain areas on a users PC?
For example, suppose if I wrote a virus or a malicious script, store it in a fold… Continue reading Can a compressed archive be constructed in a way to extract into system folders?
I know that there are multiple HTTP Compression tools out there.
In order to entirely prevent a site from being susceptible to BREACH, which HTTP Compression algorithm should I use?
Also, how should I go about making sure … Continue reading Which HTTP Compression should I use (and how?)
I am trying to figure out how to get my source information to compile smaller using encrypted text. This could potentially change the game in transferring large-chunked data and offer security at the same time.
Are there any encryption t… Continue reading Which encryption algorithm allows for the less output data than source data? [duplicate]
I came across some password protected ARJ files.
What is the algorithm for ARJ encrypted files ? How to decrypt them ?
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