Timeline for How to check a file was encrypted (really & correctly)
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| Aug 6, 2019 at 6:07 | comment | added | user1686 |
Well, there's no difference between the headers of gpg --encrypt and gpg --sign and even gpg --store, all of them are OpenPGP messages with very similar headers and identical ASCII armor – you can't easily tell by looking which one is encrypted and which one is not. (Hint: The latter two aren't.)
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| Aug 5, 2019 at 15:55 | comment | added | athena | I cannot trust a plain text header (as a magic number) as it can be falsified. | |
| Aug 5, 2019 at 11:57 | history | answered | forest | CC BY-SA 4.0 |