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cowthulhu 43 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Visual Analysis of Binary Files

Does the uniformity indicate that the files are space-inefficient, and would benefit from compression?

andai 43 days ago [–]

Binvis has different color modes. One of them shows entropy. Compressed or encrypted data shows as very bright in the entropy mode, and repetitive data as dark.

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