Encryption Detection

Function definition: Tools that support the detection of encryption or password protection in files.

Lifecycle stage: Ingest

Tools for this function

Tool	Purpose
Apache PDFBox	JAVA PDF library for creation, manipulation, validation and content extraction of PDF documents
Apache POI - the Java API for Microsoft Documents	The Apache POI Project's mission is to create and maintain Java APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon the Office Open XML standards (OOXML) and Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format (OLE2).
CyberChef	A forensic tool with workflow capabilities to analyse files and containers
EpubCheck	Validator for EPUB files
FITS (File Information Tool Set)	FITS allows data curators to identify, validate, and extract technical metadata for the objects in their digital repository.
Flint	Validates a file against a policy, using common validation tools
JHOVE (Harvard Object Validation Environment)	JHOVE provides functions to perform format-specific identification, validation, and characterization of digital objects.
JHOVE2	JHOVE2 allows data curators to characterise the digital objects in their repositories.