Kgb Archiver

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KGB Archiver
Kgb-arch-scr.png
Screenshot of KGB Archiver 2.0 beta 2
Developer(s)Tomasz Pawlak
Initial releaseApril 2006 (2006-04)
RepositoryKGB Archiver Repository
Written inVisual C++
Operating systemWindows, Unix-like
Available inEnglish, Arabic, Czech, German, Greek, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish, and Ukrainian[1]
TypeFile archiver
LicenseGPL-2.0-only

KGB Archiver is a discontinued file archiver and data compression utility that employs the PAQ6 compression algorithm.[2] Written in Visual C++ by Tomasz Pawlak, KGB Archiver is designed to achieve a very high compression ratio. It has ten levels of compression, from very weak to maximum. However, at higher compression levels, the time required to compress a file increases significantly.[3] As a consequence, the program uses memory and CPU intensively.

KGB Archiver is free and open-source, released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Version 2 beta 2 is available for Microsoft Windows[3][2] and a command-line version of KGB Archiver 1.0 is available for Unix-like operating systems.

Features

  • Native .kgb files and .zip files[3][2]
  • AES-256 encryption[3][4][5]
  • Creating self-extracting archives[3][4]
  • Unicode support in both the user interface and file system interactions
  • Shell extension for Windows[1]

System requirements

The minimum requirements for running KGB Archiver are:[3][4][5]

  • 1.5 GHz processor
  • 256 MB RAM

See also

  • Comparison of file archivers
  • RAR (file format)
  • ZPAQ

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Compress 1 GB to 10 MB : KGB Archiver". http://cshared.com/compress-1-gb-to-10-mb-kgb-archiver/. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Обзор небольших утилит. Август 2008." (in ru-ru). August 2008. https://www.ixbt.com/soft/util0808.shtml. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Nitu, Cosmin (26 May 2006). "Great Compression Solution!". SoftNews NET. https://www.softpedia.com/reviews/windows/KGB-Archiver-24802.shtml. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 ""KGB Archiver" - Software Informer". Kgb-archiver.software.informer.com. 2009-04-01. http://kgb-archiver.software.informer.com/. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Kgb Archiver – The Most Powerful Compression Tool". Genius Hackers. 2008-06-17. http://geniushackers.com/blog/2008/06/17/kgb-archiver-the-most-powerful-compression-tool/. 

External links

  • KGB Archiver on SourceForge.net




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