corrupt

We have hosted the application corrupt in order to run this application in our online workstations with Wine or directly.

Quick description about corrupt:

This program intentionally corrupts a unix stream at a specified error rate. It is for systematic analysis on the effects of data corruption. I wrote it to simulate bit-rot in file archives so I could test RAID and archive strategies for data recovery. A few short bash scripts are included so you can instantly enjoy text, image, audio, and Video corruption. Just drop in your own data files called test.jpg, test.mp3, and test.mp4 and run the scripts.

Usage format is:

corrupt [OPTION]. [FILE]

where:

OPTIONS

-bitsingle bit error instead of byte substitution corruption
-B NUM_Bnumber of bytes per a single corruption event
-kB NUM_KB number of kilobytes per a single corruption event
-MB NUM_MBnumber of megabytes per a single corruption event

-uuniform corruption instead of a random statistical event

-c CHARsubstitute a constant CHAR instead of a random bit/byte error.

Features:

• bit or byte level corruption
• user defined error rate specified in B, kB, or MB
• statistical or uniform error distribution

Audience: System Administrators, Developers.
User interface: Command-line.
Programming Language: C.
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