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I'll add mine: https://brage.info/hello https://brage.info/hello It's a 1MB file that decompresses to 261 tredecillion bytes of "Hello, World". No terribly cl
by Filligree 11y ago
I'll add mine: https://brage.info/hello https://brage.info/hello
It's a 1MB file that decompresses to 261 tredecillion bytes of "Hello, World".
No terribly clever stream manipulation; it's a perfectly normal gzip file, other than the size. The generation script is here: http://sprunge.us/VhFc http://sprunge.us/VhFc, but see if you can figure it out without peeking.
- kuschku 11y agoActually, it decompresses into a 1.4MiB file, which decompresses into another 1.4MiB file, recursively.
- Filligree 11y agoI sized it to fit on a floppy disk. :-3 But, no. There's a finite number of levels, and it blows up pretty quickly.
- sbierwagen 11y agoWarning to my fellow chumps: that is a direct link to the gzip bomb. Clicking on it causes a download, which results in Windows Defender promptly losing its mind as it tries to decompress the whole thing looking for viruses. (win 8.1) Interestingly enough, it's not using up any memory, but it is hitting the disk at 55MB/s, so I'm guessing it's decompressing it to disk, and will eventually crash when it fills up my hard drive. EDIT: It gave up after fifteen minutes. That's nice, now I don't have to reboot. There was about 2 gigabytes of stuff in my temp folder when I ran disk cleanup, don't know how much of that was gzip bomb output.
- orangepenguin 11y agoIs that short or long scale tredecillion?
- dredmorbius 11y agoMay I suggest for the merely curious: curl https://brage.info/hello | od -c | head -40