(tye)Re2: How to tell if something is encrypted

"zip" files fit your description quite nicely (I can't believe that having 20 of the first 29 bytes of a file be zero makes sense when you are trying to compress things -- like I said, they aren't doing the best compression they could).

The "gzip" files I checked had about 2 zero bytes in the first 10 bytes. This is much more reasonable in my book but also fits your description so...

I conceed the point; you are right. (:

- tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

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Re (tilly): (tye)Re2: How to tell if something is encrypted by tilly (Archbishop) on Apr 19, 2001 at 22:52 UTC
Think of zip as being taking a tar of gzipped files. Sure the compression is not as good as gzipping a tar. But you can list contents and extract any given file without having to decompress the whole thing. Sometimes space saved is not the only consideration when compressing things. :-)	[reply]