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Access control list
An access control list (ACL), with respect to a computer file system, is a list of permissions attached to an object.
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AdvanceCOMP
AdvanceCOMP is a set of cross-platform command line data (re-)compression tools.
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Advanced Encryption Standard
The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), also known by its original name Rijndael, is a specification for the encryption of electronic data established by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2001.
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Archive file
An archive file is a file that is composed of one or more computer files along with metadata........
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Arithmetic coding
Arithmetic coding is a form of entropy encoding used in lossless data compression.
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ARM architecture
ARM, previously Advanced RISC Machine, originally Acorn RISC Machine, is a family of reduced instruction set computing (RISC) architectures for computer processors, configured for various environments.
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Binary tree
In computer science, a binary tree is a tree data structure in which each node has at most two children, which are referred to as the and the.
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Brute-force search
In computer science, brute-force search or exhaustive search, also known as generate and test, is a very general problem-solving technique that consists of systematically enumerating all possible candidates for the solution and checking whether each candidate satisfies the problem's statement.
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Burrows–Wheeler transform
The Burrows–Wheeler transform (BWT, also called block-sorting compression) rearranges a character string into runs of similar characters.
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Bzip2
bzip2 is a free and open-source file compression program that uses the Burrows–Wheeler algorithm.
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Comparison of archive formats
There are many popular computer data archive formats for creating and maintaining archive files.
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Data compression
In signal processing, data compression, source coding, or bit-rate reduction involves encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation.
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Data compression ratio
Data compression ratio, also known as compression power, is a computer science term used to quantify the reduction in data-representation size produced by a data compression algorithm.
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Data degradation
Data degradation is the gradual corruption of computer data due to an accumulation of non-critical failures in a data storage device.
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DEFLATE
In computing, Deflate is a lossless data compression algorithm and associated file format that uses a combination of the LZ77 algorithm and Huffman coding.
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Delta encoding
Delta encoding is a way of storing or transmitting data in the form of differences (deltas) between sequential data rather than complete files; more generally this is known as data differencing.
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DOS
DOS is a family of disk operating systems.
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Dr. Dobb's Journal
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Encryption
In cryptography, encryption is the process of encoding a message or information in such a way that only authorized parties can access it and those who are not authorized cannot.
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Entropy encoding
In information theory an entropy encoding is a lossless data compression scheme that is independent of the specific characteristics of the medium.
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Exbibyte
The exbibyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.
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File spanning
File Spanning is the ability to package a single file or data stream into separate files of a specified size.
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File system permissions
Most file systems have methods to assign permissions or access rights to specific users and groups of users.
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GNU Lesser General Public License
The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
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Gzip
gzip is a file format and a software application used for file compression and decompression.
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Header (computing)
In information technology, header refers to supplemental data placed at the beginning of a block of data being stored or transmitted.
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Huffman coding
In computer science and information theory, a Huffman code is a particular type of optimal prefix code that is commonly used for lossless data compression.
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Itanium
Itanium is a family of 64-bit Intel microprocessors that implement the Intel Itanium architecture (formerly called IA-64).
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Key stretching
In cryptography, key stretching techniques are used to make a possibly weak key, typically a password or passphrase, more secure against a brute-force attack by increasing the time it takes to test each possible key.
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Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain algorithm
The Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain algorithm (LZMA) is an algorithm used to perform lossless data compression.
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List of archive formats
This is a list of file formats used by archivers and compressors used to create archive files.
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LZ77 and LZ78
LZ77 and LZ78 are the two lossless data compression algorithms published in papers by Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv in 1977 and 1978.
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Markov chain
A Markov chain is "a stochastic model describing a sequence of possible events in which the probability of each event depends only on the state attained in the previous event".
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Move-to-front transform
The move-to-front (MTF) transform is an encoding of data (typically a stream of bytes) designed to improve the performance of entropy encoding techniques of compression.
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Multiple-image Network Graphics
Multiple-image Network Graphics (MNG) is a graphics file format, published in 2001, for animated images.
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NTFS
NTFS (New Technology File System) is a proprietary file system developed by Microsoft.
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Open architecture
Open architecture is a type of computer architecture or software architecture that is designed to make adding, upgrading and swapping components easy.
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Open format
An open format is a file format for storing digital data, defined by a published specification usually maintained by a standards organization, and which can be used and implemented by anyone.
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Passphrase
A passphrase is a sequence of words or other text used to control access to a computer system, program or data.
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The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
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Portable Network Graphics
Portable Network Graphics (PNG, pronounced or) is a raster graphics file format that supports lossless data compression.
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PowerPC
PowerPC (with the backronym Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC – Performance Computing, sometimes abbreviated as PPC) is a reduced instruction set computing (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM.
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Prediction by partial matching
Prediction by partial matching (PPM) is an adaptive statistical data compression technique based on context modeling and prediction.
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Public domain
The public domain consists of all the creative works to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.
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Range encoding
Range encoding is an entropy coding method defined by G. Nigel N. Martin in a 1979 paper,, Video & Data Recording Conference, Southampton, UK, July 24–27, 1979.
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RAR (file format)
RAR is a proprietary archive file format that supports data compression, error recovery and file spanning.
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SHA-2
SHA-2 (Secure Hash Algorithm 2) is a set of cryptographic hash functions designed by the United States National Security Agency (NSA).
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Solid compression
In computing, solid compression is a method for data compression of multiple files, wherein all the uncompressed files are concatenated and treated as a single data block.
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Tar (computing)
In computing, tar is a computer software utility for collecting many files into one archive file, often referred to as a tarball, for distribution or backup purposes.
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Unicode
Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems.
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Unix
Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, development starting in the 1970s at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.
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UPX
UPX (Ultimate Packer for Executables) is a free and open source executable packer supporting a number of file formats from different operating systems.
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X86
x86 is a family of backward-compatible instruction set architectures based on the Intel 8086 CPU and its Intel 8088 variant.
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Xz
xz is a lossless compression program and file format which incorporates the LZMA/LZMA2 compression algorithms.
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Zip (file format)
ZIP is an archive file format that supports lossless data compression.
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Zlib
zlib is a software library used for data compression.
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7-Zip
7-Zip is a free and open-source file archiver, a utility used to place groups of files within compressed containers known as "archives".
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