RAT (Re: [RFC] Blob format)

[Matthew Hannigan]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 05:30:32PM +0200, Johan Rydberg wrote:
> Sounds like zipfiles are borked.  The upside with zipfiles, though, is
> that almost everything can read them.  No need for special tools.
....

An interesting archive format I came across some time ago is "rat" 

There is a paper on it at
 rat: A Secure Archiving Program With Fast Retrieval
 http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/full_papers/schreuder/schreuder_html/index.html

You can get source code from 
http://www.netperls.com/~willem/index.html

It may provide food for thought if nothing else.


Matt