PEA archive format

PEA archive format

PEA, an anagram for Pack Encrypt Authenticate, is an open source archive file format that is copyrighted under the GNU General Public License. It is a general purpose archiving format featuring compression and multiple volume output. The developers' goal is to offer a flexible security model through Authenticated Encryption, that provides both privacy and authentication of the data, and redundant integrity checks ranging from checksums to cryptographically strong hashes, defining three different levels of communication to control: streams, objects, and volumes.

It was developed in conjunction with the PeaZip file archiver. PeaZip is currently the only archive utility that supports the PEA archive format but it is well documented and available.

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