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[DesperD0s]

Hi there,
I have made some application for hex editing, and I decided to test it. My testing was on some image file, and the result of it weren't promising at all. I could understand only 3 first letters, and the rest of the code remained unfamiliar to me. Anyway, here is my Q. I plead you if you know to explain what the rest of the code means, code is below.

Code

Thanks in advance.

[abzero]

Well it's a Gif, if you want to understand it try looking at the documents hosted here: Wotsit.org The first few characters are just for indication perposes only.

[Alexander]

As abzero explained the first few bytes are a plaintext binary discriptor, a hex editor can only display certain ASCII characters (ANSI on Windows: letters within range 32-255 or 20-FF in hex), the rest is just plain binary segments of the image, hence the dots, they're undisplayable data so there's nothing it can do.

[DesperD0s]

On the contrary, I might discover how it all functions :) Data that is hidden under those bytes seems to use some code of encryption, therefore it is not very easy to understand the code. I would like to thank you abzero for showing me the path to it :).

[WingedPanther]

It's compressed data, not encrypted.