Bringing science to digital forensics with standardized forensic corpora

doi:10.1016/j.diin.2009.06.016

Digital Investigation

Volume 6, Supplement, September 2009, Pages S2-S11

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Abstract

Progress in computer forensics research has been limited by the lack of a standardized data sets—corpora—that are available for research purposes. We explain why corpora are needed to further forensic research, present a taxonomy for describing corpora, and announce the availability of several forensic data sets.

Keywords

Forensics

Human subjects research

Corpora

Real data corpus

Realistic data

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Simson L. Garfinkel is an Associate Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and an associate of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. His research interests include computer forensics, the emerging field of usability and security, personal information management, privacy, information policy and terrorism.

L.T. Paul Farrell was a graduate student at the Naval Postgraduate School when this work was done, and is now serving overseas with US forces.

Vassil Roussev is an Associate Professor at the University of New Orleans. His research interests include Distributed systems—computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), on-the-spot digital forensics, mobile devices. Software engineering—pattern-based techniques, component and service based models, agile development methods.

George Dinolt is a Professor of the Practice at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. His research interests include formal methods, network security, and high-performance cryptography.