LZFSE

File Format
Name	LZFSE
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Compression LZFSE
Released	2015

LZFSE (Lempel-Ziv, Finite State Entropy) is a data compression algorithm and compressed data format developed by Apple. The source code was released around July 2016.

Identification

LZFSE data begins with 0x62 0x76 0x78 (at least on little-endian systems?).

Links

• Mac Developer Library: Data Compression
• GitHub repository
• InfoQ: Apple Open-Sources its New Compression Algorithm LZFSE