Re: Question regarding tcp dump

Guy Harris <[email protected]> Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:27:26 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.network.ethereal.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jun 19, 2006, at 4:44 PM, [email protected] wrote:

> Here is the last portion of the stream:
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> ----
> --------------
>
> 25lbnQgOCANL0NvbG9y
> U3BhY2UgL0RldmljZVJHQiAvVHlwZSAvWE9iamVjdCAvU3VidHlwZSAvSW1hZ2UgPj4gDX 
> N0
> cmVhbQ0K/9j/7gAOQWRvYmUAZAAAAAAA/ 
> 9sAQwAoHB4jHhkoIyEjLSsoMDxkQTw3Nzx7WF1J
> ZJGAmZaPgIyKoLTmw6Cq2q2KjMj/y9ru9f///5vB////+v/m/f/ 
> 4/8AAEQgDLgQ9A1IRAEcR
> AEIRAP/EAB8AAAEFAQEBAQEBAAAAAAAAAAABAgMEBQYHCAkKC// 
> EALUQAAIBAwMCBAMFBQQE
> AAABfQECAwAEEQUSITFBBhNRYQcicRQygZGhCCNCscEVUtHwJDNicoIJChYXGBkaJSYnKC 
> kq
> NDU2Nzg5OkNERUZHSElKU1RVVldYWVpjZGVmZ2hpanN0dXZ3eHl6g4SFhoeIiYqSk5SVlp 
> eY
> mZqio6Slpqeoqaqys7S1tre4ubrCw8TFxsfIycrS09TV1tfY2drh4uPk5ebn6Onq8fLz9P 
> X2
> 9/j5+v/ 
> aAAwDUgBHAEIAAD8A1cVs1s0tFFAopKWilpaKKKKKKKKWiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
> iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii 
> ii
> iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii 
> ii
> iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii 
> ii
> iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiikoooopKKKKKKKKKWkNBpDSU2m0ZozS5pSRQSKCRSZoBpO1 
> BN
> BNGaTOKQGkzSE5NBOTRnmlBoXApQR3pwOad1p2c0EbeaMbRmkPAzRwaODS8GmsBnimsMHi 
> mk
> DPFM56U3OeKb7U4YHNP4HPen8DmmYzzTNveozzzT1
> YbuBTgeeBTlbngUN1yTSNwcnrSSccnr
> TM1Hmos5pKTNJSHrRRSqcHNOXg5oU7TmpA3PA4qQNjp0qRZj6cUjNk 
> +lNZsn0oL5PpTd3Q0h
> bHNIWPWl30b6N/FJuajcaaSaQsefWkLkZ9aQt 
> +dMAJODTcbiKQ5pxUdzSkeppOD1NJjAyOaT
> 7q8c0h6UuO5NLg9SetIQT3pDgdKawA6UcDpTCccVGaZSE8c0HnrRk4pCvGaGXA9qXadue1 
> IF
> OKVcqOBSqxUcCroq7WhSiikpaKKUUUtLRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR 
> RR
> RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

That looks like a base-64 encoding of some sort of binary data such  
as a GIF or JPEG image.  If so, the repeated letters might correspond  
to a block in the image with a solid color.