Software Update: PeaZip 6.0.1

Version 6.0.1 of PeaZip has been released. This archiving program is made available under an open source license, and downloads are available for Windows and Linux. The program aims to distinguish itself from the competition by specializing in safety. Encrypting data is therefore one of the main functions of the proprietary system pea format. PeaZip can create 7z, bz2, gz, paq/lpaq, pea, quad, tar, upx and zip files, and extract various file formats including ace, arj, cab, deb, iso, lha , rar and rpm. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

backend

• Pea 0.54, implementing new PEA file format specifications 1.1 version
  • added support to SHA-3 256 and 512 bit hash
  • added support to Twofish and Serpent (128 and 256 bit) based authenticated encryption in EAX mode
  • new pea binary can read PEA 1.0 file format
  • previous pea binaries should be updated in order to read PEA 1.1 files, and to support all new algorithms
• (Linux) Updated p7zip from 15.09 beta to 15.14

Code

• Updated following units from Wolfgang Ehrhardt’s crypto and utilities library: aes_2015-09-14.zip, crc_hash_2015-09-14.zip, fca_2015-09-14.zip, util_2015-09-14.zip
• Created new EAX units using 128 and 256 bit Twofish (fcryptt, fctf256) and Serpent (fcrypts, fcsp256)

File manager

• Introduced support for SHA-3 256 and SHA-3 512 hash verification
  • SHA-3 hash is available both in file tools “Checksum/hash file(s)” and in browser (set in Options > File Tools)
• Various fixes and improvements

Extraction and archiving

• New “File” group in archiving/extraction context menu shows bookmarked and recent archive files, for quick adding to archiving/extraction layout

The following downloads are available:
PeaZip for Windows (32bit)
PeaZip for Windows (64 bit)
PeaZip portable
PeaZip for Linux and BSD
PeaZip add-ons