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Re: [PEN-TEST] cryptanalysis software
From: Pierre Vandevenne <pierre () datarescue com>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 23:13:03 +0100
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000 11:12:58 -0500, Jose Nazario wrote:
last week's discussion on encryption in a pen test got me thinking. do any of you know of any software that can evaluate a block of data and make a decent guess as it if the data is potentially encrypted data, and if so with what algorithms? when compared to purely random bits, that is.
This paper might be of interest http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/round1/r1-rand.pdf I don't think discrimination will be possible with purely random bits. OTOH, normally, the non encrypted trafic in itself isn't random. --- Pierre Vandevenne - DataRescue sa/nv Home of the IDA Pro Disassembler - Version 4.15 now available ! http://www.datarescue.com/idabase/ida.htm
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