[PEN-TEST] Tool to find out if file is encrypted

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Someone posted recently about a tool to find if a file is encrypted?  I use

IsEncrypted

for just this job.  It's by AccessData.

thomas



> 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.
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