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Re: magic number for mcrypt

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On 11/15/2014 3:30 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote:
> The 'file' command recognizes an encrypted file from mcrypt but I can't 
> find anywhere online the hex "magic number" that identifies the format. It 
> could be a long series of hex numbers or short. Does anyone know mcrypt's 
> signature?

$ man file | grep 'default magic' | head -1
/usr/share/misc/magic  Directory containing default magic files.

$ cd /usr/share/misc

$ ll
total 2336
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  600570 Mar 15  2012 magic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1786200 Mar 15  2012 magic.mgc

$ grep mcrypt *
magic:# $File: mcrypt,v 1.5 2009/09/19 16:28:10 christos Exp $
magic:# mcrypt:   file(1) magic for mcrypt 2.2.x;
magic:0 string            \0m\3     mcrypt 2.5 encrypted data,
magic:0 string            \0m\2     mcrypt 2.2 encrypted data,
Binary file magic.mgc matches


Thad

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magic number for mcrypt "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-11-15 18:30 -0500
  Re: magic number for mcrypt Thad Floryan <thad@thadlabs.com> - 2014-11-15 18:27 -0800
    Re: magic number for mcrypt "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-11-15 21:54 -0500
      Re: magic number for mcrypt Thad Floryan <thad@thadlabs.com> - 2014-11-15 19:02 -0800
        Re: magic number for mcrypt Thad Floryan <thad@thadlabs.com> - 2014-11-15 19:08 -0800
          Re: magic number for mcrypt gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2014-11-16 06:52 +0000
            Re: magic number for mcrypt Thad Floryan <thad@thadlabs.com> - 2014-11-16 01:10 -0800
          Re: magic number for mcrypt "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-11-16 14:01 -0500
            Re: magic number for mcrypt Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2014-11-16 11:56 -0800
              Re: magic number for mcrypt Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2014-11-18 03:50 +0000
                Re: magic number for mcrypt "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-11-17 23:56 -0500
            Re: magic number for mcrypt "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-11-16 15:34 -0500
              Re: magic number for mcrypt William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2014-11-16 22:16 +0000
                Re: magic number for mcrypt "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-11-17 16:47 -0500
                Re: magic number for mcrypt William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2014-11-17 23:43 +0000
                Re: magic number for mcrypt Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-11-18 00:36 +0000
                Re: magic number for mcrypt "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-11-17 23:02 -0500
              Re: magic number for mcrypt Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2014-11-16 17:39 -0800
                Re: magic number for mcrypt "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-11-17 16:22 -0500
        Re: magic number for mcrypt "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-11-16 13:59 -0500

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