in reply to How to tell if something is encrypted

If you have the key, trying to decrypt it is THE solution ;-)

Otherwise a compression test may be a quick (but bad) solution depending on the data being transmitted.
(quite efficient if you transmit text, or other redundant informations)

If you can't save space by compressing it :
It's probably that it's

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