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From: Thad Floryan <thad@thadlabs.com>
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Subject: Re: magic number for mcrypt
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 19:08:49 -0800
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On 11/15/2014 7:02 PM, Thad Floryan wrote:
> On 11/15/2014 6:54 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote:
>> [...]
>>     I've never seen a string as a magic number in a hexdump. How and where 
>> would that be exactly in a hexdump of a mcrypted file?
> 
> $ man magic
> 
> Last free answer you get since you don't bother using your
> own system to lookup answers.

You obviously need to read this, too:

    http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Thad