Format
PEA Archive Format
Summary
- Name
- PEA Archive Format
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/1095
- Format type
- Aggregate
- Description
- PEA (an acronym of Pack Encrypt Authenticate) is the native format of PeaZip, an open source file archiver created by Giorgio Tani.
- File extensions
-
pea - Source
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Internal signatures
PEA Archive
- Note
- BOF: Magic 0xEA, 9 bytes include major/minor version which may be desirable to distinguish in the future. Stream Header 0x0000 'POD' 0x00 https://hwiegman.home.xs4all.nl/fileformats/pea/pea_file_format.pdf
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
EA{9}0000504F4400- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
Added in V92
- Release date
- 20 September 2017
PEA Archive Format: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.
PEA Archive Format: Full entry added.