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The decrypted data could be random, but afaik, encrypted data does have patterns that are evident of encrypted data.
by Arelius 15y ago
The decrypted data could be random, but afaik, encrypted data does have patterns that are evident of encrypted data.
- keeperofdakeys 15y agoUsually this is only in the form of a header on the block device. Dm-crypt on linux has a mode called 'plain'. This uses the sector number and passphrase/keyfile to generate a unique encryption key for each sector. This means there is no meta-data, and corruption of any physical sectors map directly to the unencrypted block device. In this case, it does look just like random data.