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Post by Pliskin on Jan 5, 2006 1:38:30 GMT 10
Hi DOGG, New archiver for you. KGB Archiver is the compression tool with unbelievable high compression rate. It surpasses even such efficient compression tool like 7zip and UHARC in terms of the abilities. Unfortunately although its powerful compression rate, it has high hardware requirements (I recommend processor with 1,5GHz clock and 256MB of RAM as an essential minimum). One of the advantages of KGB Archiver is also AES-256 encryption which is used to encrypt the archives. This is one of the strongest encryptions known for human. www.icpnet.pl/~tomekpawlak/kgb/ |
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Post by silky on Jan 5, 2006 12:27:36 GMT 10
KGB Archiver is a clone of PAQ6  |
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Post by Pliskin on Jan 5, 2006 23:22:01 GMT 10
As far as I am aware, KGB currently has the following features.
* Freeware
* PAQ6 compression engine
* Windows installer
* Windows GUI
* SFX support
* Password protected archives with AES-256 encryption
* Integration into Windows context menus
* Polish, English, Russian and (in next version) Chinese language support
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Post by -={DOGG}=- on Jan 6, 2006 16:07:41 GMT 10
Thanks for letting me know I've just got myself a new job. So i'll be fairly busy. I will do some quick tests however and post the results here |
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Post by -={DOGG}=- on Jan 6, 2006 16:39:04 GMT 10
"Good" (202MB) compression
TXT (E) 1.04 MB (1,096,867 bytes)
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Post by -={DOGG}=- on Jan 6, 2006 16:49:12 GMT 10
"Very Good" (404MB) compression
TXT (E) 1.04 MB (1,091,989 bytes)
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Post by Pliskin on Jan 7, 2006 7:03:56 GMT 10
Impressive result!
How does it compare to WinRK and WinUDA for compression speed?
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Post by -={DOGG}=- on Jan 7, 2006 11:18:23 GMT 10
Not sure since i don't time them. But i'll do a quick test for you
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Post by -={DOGG}=- on Jan 7, 2006 11:56:42 GMT 10
Well, i'd just finished writing the message and was about to hit post. Had my hand on the mouse when my computer decided to crash (after 5 days non-stop working under 100% load). From what i remember & recycle bin archives: winuda 0.921 classic (mode3) = 68 seconds?, 1,076KB kgb (good) = 4+ minutes, 1,072KB winrk 3.0 beta 2 (normal) = 7 seconds, 1,056KB winrk 3.0 beta 2 (best assym.) = 17 seconds, 1,192KB winrk 3.0 beta 2 (high) = 1minute+  , 1,048KB WinRK kills the competition with speed & ratio. But do remember that it uses a text dictionary and it uses PPMd for text files. in normal mode. |
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Post by Pliskin on Jan 9, 2006 7:15:45 GMT 10
Thanks for posting the test results.
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Post by Pliskin on Feb 2, 2006 1:07:46 GMT 10
KGB now has faster compression and supports archives up to 4GB . www.icpnet.pl/~tomekpawlak/kgb/Change log: 1.0.4.16 [/li][li] - fixed statistics (wrong progress indicator, while creating bigger archive than 40,96MB & wrong remaining time when it's bigger than 10h) [/li][li] - added support for archives up to 4GB (instead of 2GB) [/li][li] - faster compression (about 2,5%) 1.0.3.15 [+] - KGB Archiver saves settings before exit [+] - added auto-update module [+] - added dialog during decryption of archive (which can take few seconds) [/li][li] - improved statistics 1.0.2.14 [+] - progress is shown on the title bar during compression [/li][li] - English translation repaired [/li][li] - improved performance of encryption/decryption (about 5%) [-] - removed Chinese and Russian translations due to compatibility issues |
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Post by Pliskin on Feb 13, 2006 9:16:30 GMT 10
KGB 1.1.0.17 released. www.icpnet.pl/~tomekpawlak/kgb/1.1.0.17 [+] - added ZIP support [/li][li] - improved statistics [/li][li] - fixed error, which could block decompression of KGB archives on some systems [/li][li] - completed English translation [/li][li] - new icons [/li][li] - minor changes |
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Post by Pliskin on Feb 23, 2006 0:58:58 GMT 10
KGB 1.1.1.18 released. www.icpnet.pl/~tomekpawlak/kgb/1.1.1.18 [+] - added compression in background mode [+] - added ability to add files by drag'n'drop method [+] - added archive statistics field after opening archive [+] - added calculation of units if it's bigger than 1024 (B -> KB -> MB -> GB) [/li][li] - added elapsed time information after compression/decompression [/li][li] - fixed error, which place full path without drive letter in ZIP archives, when compressing with 'Keep full path' option [/li][li] - fixed errors in English translation [/li][li] - minor changes |
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Post by Pliskin on Mar 3, 2006 5:26:09 GMT 10
KGB 1.1.2.19 released. www.icpnet.pl/~tomekpawlak/kgb/1.1.2.19 [+] - added translations: Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Chile), French, Romanian (KGB Archiver automatically choose correct language depending on windows language version and country code) [+] - added support for encrypted SFX KGB archives (older SFX archives should be opened without problems) [+] - added minimize button to main windows of compressing and decompressing  [+] - added 'Extract here' option in windows explorer context menu [/li][li] - fixed: priority indicator returns to normal after minimize to tray and restore [/li][li] - minor changes |
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Post by Pliskin on Mar 7, 2006 6:58:31 GMT 10
KGB 1.1.3.20 released. www.icpnet.pl/~tomekpawlak/kgb/1.1.3.20 [/li][li] - security bug fixed (info about it is confidential due to safety of older version users) |
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