https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Tips-from-the-Community/SAS-Tip-Check-for-SAS-data-set-encryption-yet-another-method/m-p/436360#M50 <P>Given an arbitrary file (not a .sas7bdat file), open the file using FILENAME statement/functions and read the header. Certain patterns in the header are a strong indicator the file may be a SAS data set.</P> <HR /> <P>Thanks to Thomas Billings&nbsp;for this tip. Read more details in this paper from WUSS 2017:&nbsp;<A href="https://www.lexjansen.com/wuss/2017/23_Final_Paper_PDF.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Methods to Identify and Validate SASProprietary and AES Encrypted SAS Data Sets</A>.</P> Mon, 28 Jan 2019 18:11:05 GMT SAS_Tipster 2019-01-28T18:11:05Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Tips-from-the-Community/SAS-Tip-Check-for-SAS-data-set-encryption-yet-another-method/m-p/436360#M50 <P>Given an arbitrary file (not a .sas7bdat file), open the file using FILENAME statement/functions and read the header. Certain patterns in the header are a strong indicator the file may be a SAS data set.</P> <HR /> <P>Thanks to Thomas Billings&nbsp;for this tip. Read more details in this paper from WUSS 2017:&nbsp;<A href="https://www.lexjansen.com/wuss/2017/23_Final_Paper_PDF.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Methods to Identify and Validate SASProprietary and AES Encrypted SAS Data Sets</A>.</P> Mon, 28 Jan 2019 18:11:05 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Tips-from-the-Community/SAS-Tip-Check-for-SAS-data-set-encryption-yet-another-method/m-p/436360#M50 SAS_Tipster 2019-01-28T18:11:05Z