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Old 07-15-2009, 07:54 AM   #29
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Theoretically, you should be able to find the key, but I think you'd need the original and the encrypted file... The chances of that happening would be nil...
Even in that circumstance, all you could do would be to try and encrypt the original file with every possible key until you got a match for the encrypted file. For a 16-digit credit card number, such a "brute force" approach would probably be impractical.
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