KGB Archiver is a file archiver and data compression utility based on the PAQ6 compression algorithm.
Written in Microsoft Visual C++ by Tomasz Pawlak, KGB Archiver is designed to achieve a very high compression ratio. As a consequence, the program is relatively memory and CPU intensive.
KGB Archiver is free and open source software released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Version 2 beta 2 is available for Microsoft Windows[1][2] and a command line version of KGB Archiver 1.0 is available for Unix-likeoperating systems. KGB Archiver is one of the few applications that works with the PAQ algorithm for making its KGB files.[2] It has ten levels of compression, from very weak to maximum, a greater variety than that found in most other compression software. However, at higher compression levels, the time required to compress a file increases significantly.[1] The official website is now offline.
System requirements
The minimum requirements for running KGB Archiver are
- 256 MB RAM
- 1.5 GHz processor
- Features
- Supports native .kgb files and .zip files
- AES-256 encryption
- It is able to create self-extracting archives[1][3]
- Unicode is supported in both the user interface and filesystems
- Multilanguage support (including Arabic, German, Greek, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish, and Ukrainian)[5]
- An Explorer shell extension is available for the Windows versions.
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