Re: Any isencrypted function available?

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 09:12:33AM +0900, buyoppy wrote:

Is there any 'isencrypted 'function available on Debian which judges
whether some data is encrypted or not?

Unless the ciphertext contains some sort of standard header (e.g. *.gpg
files), then no. The file utility will report file types for anything it
knows about, such as pgp/gpg messages, but will report unmarked
ciphertext as "data" or "text" in most cases.

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