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supriyo-biswas on March 30, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH ser...

Now to be fair, such an archive could have been created with a “store” level of compression that doesn’t actually perform any compression.

sn on March 30, 2024 [–]

My reading of the commit message is they're claiming the "data" should look random.

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