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how to tell if decryption was successfull?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andreas)
Wed Feb 2 09:03:52 2005
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Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 17:29:43 -0200
From: Andreas <ahasenack@terra.com.br>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
[newbie here]
I was wondering how can one tell if some data was successfully
decrypted. Isn't there an assumption going on about what the cleartext
data should be? Text? Image? ZIP file? Ziped jpeg? Another cyphertext?
rot-13?
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