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From: Kurt Seifried (bugtraqseifried.org)
Date: Thu Oct 18 2001 - 20:40:31 CDT

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    > but.... lets say you have serveral long strings of cipher text...
    >
    > how can one tell the kind of cipher or encryption
    > (ROT13, DES, XOR, BASE64, etc.) is being used? If at all
    > possible...

    Well rot13 would be easy, do a frequency analysis. Ditto for XOR. Base64,
    well run it through uudecode and see what happens =). As for DES/etc you
    could look for traces but it should essentially look like random junk.

    >
    > Hey... for OWASP and the session vulns information,
    > perhaps this isnt off-topic.
    >
    >
    > Jeremiah

    -Kurt