W dniu 12.10.2024 o 02:30, Charles Mills pisze:
I admit I have not read every post of this thread and I admit I may be being
something of a curmudgeon, but how does printing the raw tracks of an allegedly
encrypted dataset prove that it is encrypted?
Would the people who are going to look at this printout be sufficiently astute to definitively
determine "encrypted" versus "XORed with 'Mary Had a Little Lamb'"?
Of course you are right, and Lennie's answer is also reasonable.
However it is "quick & dirty" method to recognize whether the dataset is
or is not encrypted.
It won't work to recognize poor (weak) encryption, or chinese (or other)
content.
However sometimes we want to know whether the STRONG encryption was used
or not. Just yes/no.
BTW: I used DSS PRINT TRACK when teaching pervasive encryption course.
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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