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Not quite what you're talking about, but there was recently a couple of posts by the 'binwalk' author about differentiating encrypted vs compressed data (presum
by shabble 13y ago
Not quite what you're talking about, but there was recently a couple of posts by the 'binwalk' author about differentiating encrypted vs compressed data (presumed header-less):
http://www.devttys0.com/2013/06/differentiate-encryption-from-compression-using-math/ http://www.devttys0.com/2013/06/differentiate-encryption-fro...
http://www.devttys0.com/2013/06/encryption-vs-compression-part-2/ http://www.devttys0.com/2013/06/encryption-vs-compression-pa...
- gknoy 13y agoWow! That was really interesting. Thanks for sharing those; have you considered submitting one of them as a story?
- shabble 13y agoThe first was submitted a couple of weeks ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5871927 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5871927 but didn't seem to take root. Hopefully there'll be a part 3 that gives an excuse to resubmit :)