A backdoor in xz
A backdoor in xz
Posted Mar 30, 2024 19:25 UTC (Sat) by MarcB (subscriber, #101804)In reply to: A backdoor in xz by chris_se
Parent article: A backdoor in xz
Did you use the "ultra" settings for zstd or any of the advanced options? Maybe there are some binary data scenarios where LZMA still wins, but in all tests I did, zstd achieved better compression. But this always was mostly textual data.
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