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>>>Can you see, by looking at an entry in a column, if the entry is encrypted with some cipher code or hash?
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>>I was just pulling your leg - but to answer the question
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>>(1) a hash is always the same length (eg md5 hash = 16 bytes or 32 hex chars)
>>(2) encryption without block cyphering (eg rc4) : the lengths will vary
>>(3) If you use block ciphering, the lengths will vary depending on the length of the password, but all lengths will be a multiple of the block
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>>So, looking at the lengths of the encrypted passwords
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>>- if the length is constant, it's likely to be a hash
>>- if the lengths are a multiple of something (not 1) it's likely to be a block cipher
>>- otherwise it's encrypted, but not with a block cipher
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>>I case of passwords - since the lengths are small - it's difficult to distinguish between hash and block cipher
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>>see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function
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>>Post your encrypted passwords and let me guess
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>Thank you for the explanation. You must be doing work with either banks or Interpol since you know so much about encryptions <g>


I have written an AES128 encyyption in C#. You know a couple of things once you have finished that