Hi everyone,<BR><BR>I am currently working on my Masters degree (Systems and Computer Engineering) here in Canada, and my thesis is in the area of parallel data compression. I wanted to do something ...

An error in the free (de)compression library libbzip2 can be exploited using specially prepared files to provoke an integer overflow. Read the full article. [The H ...

Last week, we examined a variety of compress utilities and considered some of the criteria with which you might rank their effectiveness in your environment — criteria such as the compression ratio ...

When creating tar archives with DropTar you can choose to compress the archive you create with Gzip, Bzip2, Unix Compress, or StuffIt. The following advanced settings are available: ...