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Yes, I meant try to delete... My first impression about CryptoWall is that it was hacked together quicker than CryptoLocker. It doesn't bother with generating a symmetric key per file but rather seems to use a single asymmetric key. It also apparently make a copy of the file before encrypting and doesn't zero-out after deleting the plain text file (see another of my comment in this thread)


* asymmetric key pair




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