zip bomb
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.80 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A malicious zip file designed to produce a very large output, and consume a great deal of processing resources, during decompression.
Example Sentences
- "This article shows how to construct a non-recursive zip bomb whose compression ratio surpasses the DEFLATE limit of 1032. It works by overlapping files inside the zip container, in order to reference a "kernel" of highly compressed data in multiple files, without making multiple copies of it. The zip bomb's output size grows quadratically in the input size; i.e., the compression ratio gets better as the bomb gets bigger."