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Gaithersburg

Archived Documents

Disk Imaging Specifications 3.1.6 (2001/10/12) Draft Write Blocker Specification (Jan. 07-1) Disk Imaging Specification (2001/03/09) Disk...

Forensic String Search

Forensic String Search Specs Forensic String Searching Tool Test Assertions and Test Plan, Public Draft 1 of Version 1.0, March 2018...

Forensic File Carving

Forensic File Carving Specs Forensic File Carving Tool Specification Version 1.0 Forensic File Carving Tool Test Assertions and Test Plan...

Mobile Devices

Mobile Devices Imaging Specs Growth of Data Artifacts Covered by CFTT Mobile 2025 Will be adding financial data (Google Pay, Apple Pay...

Deleted File Recovery

Deleted File Recovery Specs Active File Identification & Deleted File Recovery Tool Specification (Draft 1 of Version 1.1 March 24, 2009)...

Hardware Write Block

Hardware Write Block Specs Test plan for Version 2.0 Version 2.0 Resolution of Comments Version 1.0 (Draft) Test Support Software See...

Software Write Block

Software Write Block Specs Version 3.0 (final) Comments on drafts Version 3.0 (draft) Version 2.0 (draft) Version 1.0 (draft) Test...

Forensic Media Preparation

Forensic Media Preparation Specs Specification Draft 1 of Version 1.0 (January 9, 2009) Test Assertions and Test Plan Draft 1 of Version 1.0...

Disk Imaging

Disk Imaging Specs Digital Data Acquisition Tool Test Assertions and Test Plan (Draft 1 of Version 1.0, Nov 10, 2005) Digital Data...

Federated Testing Project

New Mobile Device Acquisition Tool and Cloud Data Extraction federated testing templates available for download below! The Federated Testing...

Presentations

Date Venue Presentation Presenter(s) 2021 Oct 2021 ASTM Workshop on the Role and Value of Voluntary Consensus Standards Use in Forensics...

Contact Information

CFTT Project Team 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8970 Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8970 USA E-mail: cftt [at] nist.gov (cftt[at]nist[dot]gov) Phone 301-975-3345 Fax 301-948-6213

Methodology Overview

The testing methodology developed by NIST is functionality driven. The activities of forensic investigations are separated into discrete...
STG

Safety and Security Technologies

The safety and security of citizens is enhanced when law enforcement and “criminal justice” agencies and the military use the appropriate and properly

Fingerprints

Fingerprints are the most commonly used biometric trait worldwide. Fingerprints are used to enroll populations into social services, allow...

The Electroshock Weapon (ESW)

The electroshock weapon (ESW), also known as a neuromuscular incapacitator, conducted energy weapon, conducted energy device, etc., is one...

Lidar

Lidar is the second most common technology employed in the United States by law enforcement agencies for vehicle speed enforcement. Almost...

Down-the-road (DTR) radar

Down-the-road (DTR) radar (radio detection and ranging) is the most commonly used vehicle speed measurement device in the United States...

Call for proposals

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