Thursday, April 22, 2010

Detecting crypto algorithm?

I have a piece of encrypted message with me but no indication of which crypto algo was used to encrypt it. This I am guessing would be the most typical case when you are trying to break someone else's encrypted data.

Question: How do I analyze this encrypted message and first find out which algorithm was used to encrypt it? - DES, AES, RC4?

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