Features and Enhancements
The 7z format provides the following main features:
- Open, modular architecture which allows any compression, conversion, or encryption method to be stacked.
- High compression ratios (depending on the compression method used)
- Strong Rijndael/AES-256 encryption.
- Large file support (up to approximately 16 exbibytes).
- Unicode file names
- Support for solid compression, where multiple files of like type are compressed within a single stream, in order to exploit the combined redundancy inherent in similar files.
- Compression and encryption of archive headers.
The format's open architecture allows additional future compression methods to be added to the standard.
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