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BZIP2 signature
Signature (hex): 42 5A 68 (BZh)
A BZIP2 (.bz2) starts with 42 5A 68 (BZh). It compresses better than gzip but is slower; common in source-code distributions.
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Signatures verifiable with CyberEscudo's magic-bytes identifier. Educational content.