Ray Murphy [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Hello, *> *>Want to make sure I'm not missing anything here. My *>task is to see if a file looks like it's encrypted. *>I'm splitting the path/filename/extension via *>File::Basename and checking to see if the extension is *>..pgp or .gpg. I'm also checking to see if the file is *>a text file via 'if (-T $file)'. Is there any other *>(better) way of testing to see if a file is encrypted? *> I don't want to call the decryption routines if the *>file is not encrypted.
There is no simple recipe for this, no. And, what's more is that even if you think it's encrypted you cannot be 100% sure of it and it's encryption method without decrypting it as well...it's a ballpark quess. One of the most helpful methods is to do a frequency analysis on the test of the file and match it with known tables of language frequency since different languages have different frequencies. And...well... e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
