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Re:How you will not uncover Satoshi by kruczek on Monday June 30, 2014 @03:45AM (#7964124)
Don't be too sure about ASCII text file either, it may still contain a bit of metadata like the BOM (although then technically it's not pure ASCII, but rather UTF, but still it means you have to check the encoding used by your favourite text editor).
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Re:How you will not uncover Satoshi by mcherm on Monday June 30, 2014 @06:27AM (#7964398)
The BOM isn't exactly identifying information, but it's things like that (and encodings) that made me specify ASCII.
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Re:How you will not uncover Satoshi by jarman on Monday June 30, 2014 @09:55AM (#7965051)
In case of UTF8, BOM isn't information at all, it's always the same 3 bytes (endianness mark is meaningless on byte-based encoding). And being added by default Windows plain text editor, it's fingerprinting usefulness is rather limited.
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