I’ve recently been examining the feasibility of differentiating compressed data from encrypted data based on variations in the entropy of the data. Initial results showed some promise, but were tested against too small of a sample set to draw any hard conclusions. Since then, I’ve been experimenting with larger data… Continue reading
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When working with binary blobs such as firmware images, you’ll eventually encounter unknown data. Particularly with regards to firmware, unknown data is usually either compressed or encrypted. Analysis of these two types of data is typically approached in very different manners, so it is useful to be able to distinguish… Continue reading