Platinum.7z May 2026

There is a file sitting on a Veracrypt-encrypted USB drive, buried inside a fireproof safe in my closet. It is not a photo. It is not a movie. It is a single archive named platinum.7z .

Go make your platinum.7z . Then hide it. Do you have a "Platinum" file? What do you keep in yours? Let me know in the comments below. platinum.7z

Here is why I moved my digital legacy to the Platinum standard, and why you should consider what "Platinum" means for your own data. Using standard Zip for my life’s work resulted in a 4.2GB file. Using 7-Zip’s LZMA2 algorithm on the "Ultra" setting turned that same data into 3.1GB. There is a file sitting on a Veracrypt-encrypted