proper crypto would be pretty darn random if implemented right. i am no guru or anything, but i do know somethings about the cat and mouse game. the whole point of encrypting a message or a file is to make it look as a random stream of bytes as possible. proper ecdsa with a randomized key is something that is very hard to break. and from what i understand it would take multiple super computers thousands of years to break the encryption of a single file <.<

but yeah, to me, when crypto is implemented right, the stream of bits generated are pretty random, cz it would not be a good thing to be dependably predictable ;) atleast not for this corporation anyway lol.

and also like i said, the std dev of these files are all within a certain range and usually if they are off by 1 to 1.5%, then that usually means the file is corrupt. once i sit down and code the script to compute some statistics of said files, i will post a zip full of these files and you can try for yourself :)

In reply to Re^6: Calculating corruption by james28909
in thread Calculating corruption by james28909

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