| xz | Pack | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 | |
| 10 | 232 | |
| - | 9.9% | |
| 2.5 | 6.0 | |
| about 2 months ago | about 2 months ago | |
| C | Pascal | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
xz
Posts with mentions or reviews of xz.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-29.
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Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
Hey all, I’m the author of that PR. Just posted to Github with additional context: https://github.com/jamespfennell/xz/pull/2#issuecomment-2027...
Pack
Posts with mentions or reviews of Pack.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-29.
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Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
The `pack`[0] compression utility that reached the HN front page the other day[1] is setting off my alarm bells right now. (It was at the time too, but now doubly so)
It's written in Pascal, and the only (semi-)documented way to build it yourself is to use a graphical IDE, and pull in pre-compiled library binaries (stored in the git repo of a dependency which afaict Pack is the only dependent of - appears to be maintained by the same pseudonymous author but from a different account).
I've opened an issue[2] outlining my concerns. I'm certainly not accusing them of having backdoored binaries, but if I was setting up a project to be deliberately backdoorable, it'd look a lot like this.
[0] https://pack.ac/
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39793805
[2] https://github.com/PackOrganization/Pack/issues/10
What are some alternatives?
When comparing xz and Pack you can also consider the following projects:
tukaani-project
rust1 - rust1
stencil-golang - Template repository for Golang applications