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The encryption app that we are using seems to generate the same output for the same input. That is bad right? I'm not smart enough to understand the scheme being used though.

616099D42B067FE178D7878638BD78CD3001E6814D3493D201066EF011A844BBCC6F876E484CAF47B68B33E252BCF8E6

The string is apparently how the app stores the password (hash?) for the encrypted files generated by the app. If we use the same password for different files, then the same string appears in the header of the file.

App is here: http://www.koingosw.com/products/dataguardian.php

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why would that be bad? Also there is a difference between decrypting and decoding, which one do you want? What did you encrypt it with? Please provide A LOT more details. – Lucas Kauffman Oct 2 '12 at 19:29
Whether it's bad or not depends on what you use it for. A bunch of bytes won't tell us anything about the scheme (unless there is a known header, which there doesn't seem to be, or the encryption is abyssimally bad). – Gilles Oct 2 '12 at 19:32
No we can't decode this string, we do not know what it is. – Lucas Kauffman Oct 2 '12 at 19:47

closed as too localized by Gilles, AviD♦ Oct 2 '12 at 19:52

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