Penetration Testing: Re: [PEN-TEST] Psydo-encyrption?

["Iselin, William" <William_Iselin () NAI COM>]

I have a friend here who can read Chinese and actually prefers Big5. That is
not encryption, but translation. If they are using this method they must not
be serious about security. There are encryption products that are available
for download off the internet at no charge.

-----Original Message-----
From: Parth Galen [mailto:parth_galen () lycos com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 11:05 AM
To: PEN-TEST () SECURITYFOCUS COM
Subject: [PEN-TEST] Psydo-encyrption?


I have a client who appears to be encrypting files (.rft docs) by changing
the default language to Chinese (Big5).

My question is, having such a file, how do you get it back into English?

I would like to demonstrate that they need REAL encryption rather than (what
I believe to be) a trick.

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