With its small memory requirements the 7z format uses a small portion of the Central Processing Unit for its decompressing purposes, although this is squarely dependent on its overall dictionary size. The five-Kilobyte code size, necessary for its decompression purposes is also an added advantage. The format is also renowned for its support for P$ hyper-threading support ands also its multi-threading support. The format uses the LZMA algorithm, which is a suitable algorithm for use on embedded applications. Furthermore, the LZMA algorithm has its terms defined under the GNU LGPL.

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This algorithm is accessible for they that cannot access and use LGPL GNU on their source code. Therefore, one could use the LZMA software development kit. It is also important to realize that the 7z format supports and uses the AES-256 algorithm for its encryption purposes. This is important as the cipher key used by the algorithm bears a 256-bit length. Moreover, for the format to create this key it employs the use of an algorithm that is function based namely the SHA-256 hash algorithm. This therefore generates a key derived and defined by the user.