Zstandard

File Format
Name	Zstandard
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Compression Zstandard
Extension(s)	.zst
Released	2015

Zstandard, or Zstd, is a general-purpose compression algorithm and file format. It is designed to have a good balance between compression ratio, compression speed, and decompression speed.

Identification

For at least some versions of Zstd format, files begin with signature bytes 25 b5 2f fd.

Software

• Zstandard → zstd, unzstd, zstdcat

Links

• Zstandard website