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"Oh sorry, looks like we couldn't decrypt that traffic, those packets went to the burn pile"
How do they know what qualifies as "encrypted" vs a binary blob that could be a photo or something?
File headers, magic bits, all sorts of stuff. Plus you can (and they do) try to load common file types, so if a PNG isn't loading correctly, it fails the test.