New forensic file format

Hello all,

a while ago I started to design and build a PoC regarding an increase in read/write performance with a new forensic file format.

The PoC resulted in the specification of a first than a second improved version of a new file format for forensic images "zff" - as an alternative to the meanwhile quite outdated EWF, AFF, ... formats.

Zff has the potential (depending on the input data) to provide significant speed increase (see benchmarks at [https://github.com/ph0llux/zff](https://github.com/ph0llux/zff)).
Furthermore, …

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