Re: [lzip-bug] FYI: Serious Design Flaws

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Dear Mr. Males,

John L. Males wrote:
> With all due respect going forward I will not use, nor suggest
> others use lzip.   This is because of serious design issues
> that cause extremely serious consequences.

Lzip has been designed, written, and tested with great care to become a safe 
format for long term archiving. It is in the interest of everybody that if 
it has any flaw, this flaw is fixed or, if it is an unfixable flaw with 
"extremely serious consecuences", that a new version free from that flaw is 
designed.

I'm sure all the users of lzip (including myself) would be grateful if you 
were so kind to tell us what the problem is, so that it can be fixed.

Moreover, given that the lzip format is basically an improvement on the gzip 
format (see chapter "Design, development, and testing of lzip" in the lzip 
manual[1]), I'm sure the maintainers and users of gzip would be also 
interested in knowing your findings.

[1] http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html#Quality-assurance


> I have no desire to explain, not document the design issues.

Would you at least explain us what "extremely serious consecuences" have you 
observed?


Thanks,
Antonio.