Curtis Poe [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*>
*>If a compression tool leaves large patterns in the data, it's a poor
*>compression tool. You can read more about this here:
*>http://perl.plover.com/Huffman/huffman.html.
Compression reduces entropy which, if used before encryption, can make the
decryp
--- Elaine -HFB- Ashton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Curtis Poe [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
> *>
> *>This probably is not the most helpful comment, but one way to tell
> *>if something is encrypted is to compress the data using Archive::Zip
> *>or something similar. I don't know, offhand, what th
Ray Murphy [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*>Hello,
*>
*>Want to make sure I'm not missing anything here. My
*>task is to see if a file looks like it's encrypted.
*>I'm splitting the path/filename/extension via
*>File::Basename and checking to see if the extension is
*>..pgp or .gpg. I'm also checki
Curtis Poe [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*>
*>This probably is not the most helpful comment, but one way to tell
*>if something is encrypted is to compress the data using Archive::Zip
*>or something similar. I don't know, offhand, what the threshhold is,
*>but if a file significantly compresses the
The -T won't work of the data can be uuencoded.
/kk
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 09:06:19AM -0800, Ray Murphy wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Want to make sure I'm not missing anything here. My
> task is to see if a file looks like it's encrypted.
> I'm splitting the path/filename/extension via
> File::Basenam
--- Ray Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Want to make sure I'm not missing anything here. My
> task is to see if a file looks like it's encrypted.
> I'm splitting the path/filename/extension via
> File::Basename and checking to see if the extension is
> ..pgp or .gpg. I'm also ch
Moustafa To: Ray Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is A File Encrypted?
If you expect a certian pattern of text in the file, I think, you
can grep the file from the expected text pattern. If you find any, then
the file is not encrypted; otherwise, the probability of the file being
encrypted would be higher.
--Ahmed
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://arbornet.org/~ahmed
On T
Hello,
Want to make sure I'm not missing anything here. My
task is to see if a file looks like it's encrypted.
I'm splitting the path/filename/extension via
File::Basename and checking to see if the extension is
..pgp or .gpg. I'm also checking to see if the file is
a text file via 'if (-T $fi
