Discover how this powerful algorithm measures randomness and compresses data—perfect for tech enthusiasts and curious minds alike!

After twenty years, a vulnerability in Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer (LZO), an extremely efficient compression algorithm, has finally been patched. The flaw, a subtle integer overflow, existed for as long ...

The algorithm developed by Lempel and Ziv allows lossless compression, sans prior knowledge of the statistical properties of the data.