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@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ class Entropy extends Operation {
this.name = "Entropy";
this.module = "Default";
this.description = "Calculates the Shannon entropy of the input data which gives an idea of its randomness. 8 is the maximum.";
this.description = "Shannon Entropy, in the context of information theory, is a measure of the rate at which information is produced by a source of data. It can be used, in a broad sense, to detect whether data is likely to be structured or unstructured. 8 is the maximum, representing highly unstructured, 'random' data. English language text usually falls somewhere between 3.5 and 5. Properly encrypted or compressed data should have an entropy of over 7.5.";
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@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ class Magic extends Operation {
this.name = "Magic";
this.flowControl = true;
this.module = "Default";
this.description = "The Magic operation attempts to detect various properties of the input data and suggests which operations could help to make more sense of it.<br><br><b>Options</b><br><u>Depth:</u> If an operation appears to match the data, it will be run and the result will be analysed further. This argument controls the maximum number of levels of recursion.<br><br><u>Intensive mode:</u> When this is turned on, various operations like XOR, bit rotates, and character encodings are brute-forced to attempt to detect valid data underneath. To improve performance, only the first 100 bytes of the data is brute-forced.<br><br><u>Extensive language support:</u> At each stage, the relative byte frequencies of the data will be compared to average frequencies for a number of languages. The default set consists of ~40 of the most commonly used languages on the Internet. The extensive list consists of 284 languages and can result in many languages matching the data if their byte frequencies are similar.";
this.description = "The Magic operation attempts to detect various properties of the input data and suggests which operations could help to make more sense of it.<br><br><b>Options</b><br><u>Depth:</u> If an operation appears to match the data, it will be run and the result will be analysed further. This argument controls the maximum number of levels of recursion.<br><br><u>Intensive mode:</u> When this is turned on, various operations like XOR, bit rotates, and character encodings are brute-forced to attempt to detect valid data underneath. To improve performance, only the first 100 bytes of the data is brute-forced.<br><br><u>Extensive language support:</u> At each stage, the relative byte frequencies of the data will be compared to average frequencies for a number of languages. The default set consists of ~40 of the most commonly used languages on the Internet. The extensive list consists of 284 languages and can result in many languages matching the data if their byte frequencies are similar.<br><br>A technical explanation of the Magic operation can be found <a href='https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef/wiki/Automatic-detection-of-encoded-data-using-CyberChef-Magic'>here</a>.";
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