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A fast erasure codec which can be used with the command-line, C,
Python, or Haskell.

Fast, portable, programmable erasure coding a.k.a. "forward error
correction": the generation of redundant blocks of information such
that if some blocks are lost then the original data can be recovered
from the remaining blocks. The zfec package includes command-line
tools, C API, Python API, and Haskell API.