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by pmarreck 42 days ago
I'm working on 3 apps (Zig core, C FFI, Windows/Mac frontends) that haven't been released yet.

One verifies the binary data of over 200+ common filetypes, to the extent possible.

Another protects data archives/data collections with some parity, in order to survive a degree of bitrot, for those files that you don't necessarily have on a NAS.

The third is a new kind of archiver that specializes in compressing files that are already internally compressed as part of their spec.

Trivia: Did you know that the now-most-common image format in the world, Apple's HEIC/HEIF, has absolutely NO internal integrity protection, and that you can't depend on a failed decode to detect errors since all binary values are allowed in the stream format?

https://mecha.llc/software/