# dear people,
it has come to my conclusion that the rpf file is encrypted using the drm, most likely using aes-gcm256, BUT not all hope is lost.
so, my theory is that we could be able to load the file structure, since all the other bytes are good, as shown here by EmEditor :
as you can see, the first 17638 bytes are effectively "rubbish", because there is no real file structure pointer, and "DRM..." is not a valid RPF header
but as you can see here, in another legitimate and working mod (thank you Starfox on LauncherLeaks), the first bytes are not rubbish, and constitute a valid RPF header
however, right after the rubbish ends (on the LV2.0.0 mod), the rubbish effectively stops, and is instead replaced with a valid RPF readable segment (1176 blanks)
what led me to say that, is just saying that all we need is the file structure, so using a tool like disk drill or such would help us recover native file indexes in that file