Top 4 C Xz Projects
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29. October 2021 At this point Jia Tan pops up, and the first thing we see from him is an innocuous patch to the xz repository, and while a lot of people believe he started out trying his luck with another library also known as libarchive, this is not the case, I would bet it’s more of a backup looking at the dates, being that there are a few days in between as shown in this commit.
Project mention: Deep Dive into XZ Utils Backdoor – Columbia Engineering Guest Lecture [video] | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-30Worth a watch. There's also this GitHub where there's reverse engineering going on: https://github.com/smx-smx/xzre
We now know the answer to the question of "who would win?"
1) A years-long nation-state-backed hacking effort to infiltrate a software project and compromise most servers in the Western world
or
2) A German's obsession with efficiency and precision in engineering
Project mention: Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-29Hey all, I’m the author of that PR. Just posted to Github with additional context: https://github.com/jamespfennell/xz/pull/2#issuecomment-2027...
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Xz projects in C? This list will help you:
Project | Stars | |
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1 | libarchive | 2,899 |
2 | Minizip-ng | 1,169 |
3 | xzre | 81 |
4 | xz | 10 |
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