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Originally Posted by Barrykgerdes
Yes I would be surprised if they had not. However I did not want to get too far into encryption. The point I was trying to make is that a code that is electronically generated must follow some rule and the key to decryption without a key is to know exactly what has been encoded. A data stream on a HDD does not use start and stop bits on each byte but it does use markers to know where the the data starts and stops.
Barry
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It is true that there are a variety of headers and trailers at the physical disk and the filesystem level which you could consider analogous to start and stop bits but they are irrelevant here. CryptoLocker encrypts at the file level and it's not hard to tell what has been encrypted.
Cheers,
Rick.