Penetration Testing: Re: Determining the encryption used

["Art Cooper" <acooper () pop innerwall com>]

The problem with trying to determine the encryption used is due to the fact 
there are many, many 3rd-party, proprietary database encryption tools and 
applications in use out there...

Coop

On Thu, 11 May 2006 10:20:10 -0700 (PDT), John Madden wrote
> Hi,
>
> While doing a pen-test I came across a database with
> encrypted fields and I was curious to try and see what
> I would do with it.
>
> Is it possible to determine the encryption used by
> "looking" at the encrypted results or lenght ?
>
> I know that with Base64 it's pretty easy because of
> the "==" at the end.
>
> I would like to learn more about the subject and
> considering the amount of documentation out there, I
> would like your comments on what you have used and
> found usefull.
>
> Also if there are any tools besides openssl that you
> found usefull to try all the cipher, consecutively
> with a passphrase/keyword against a file/string
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
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