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ben174 on July 6, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Defending a website with Zip bombs

Thank you. I was going crazy trying to think of what the contents of that 42 bytes would have been.

rootlocus on July 6, 2017 [–]

Without any headers, metadata or padding and using RLE one byte for 0 and 8 bytes for the number of zeroes: 10^15 will easily fit 9 bytes and can be used to generate a file filled with one petabyte of zeroes.

gberger on July 6, 2017 | [–]

Well, yes, but that's not ZIP encoding.

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