Re:US Border Patrol says they can create central repository ...
by gruez on Sunday August 23, 2020 @04:19PM
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The ciphertext looks the same, but the file doesn't, since it typically has metadata about what type of encryption is used in plain-text.
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Re:US Border Patrol says they can create central repository ...
by schoen on Sunday August 23, 2020 @04:41PM
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Now I'm curious, because I've spent the past little while looking at file encryption headers, whether there's an example where the RSA modulus size is explicitly going to be part of the file header. I guess you could tell even if it was presented as a blob (inside a structured header) because it would be padded to a size that was equal to the length of the modulus...