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Re: Any isencrypted function available?



On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:26 AM, buyoppy <buyoppy@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:

>> Try this implementation, which I have not tested (or
>> even compiled).

(I realised subsequently that it reads past the end of the buffer if
system memory is low and the input buffer was less than
PLANB_BUF_SIZE; oops).

>  Thanks for your code, which may be useful when I would
> have miss-erased zip extension of an archive.
>  But I mean 'encrypted' (NOT 'compressed') data.
>  Thanks.

A common characteristic of encrypted data is that it has a low degree
of redundancy; the method for which I provided code performs a
rudimentary test for redundancy in the data simply by attempting to
compress it.  If you want a better method of attacking the problem,
and to be sure there are more sophisticated techniques, you will need
to learn about information theory.

James.


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