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<!--		      <h1>Welcome to the CFTT Federated Testing CD</h1>-->
			  <h1>Welcome to the CFTT Federated Testing Forensic Tool Testing Environment</h1>
				
<!--		      <h2>Overview</h2>
		      <p>Law Enforcement (LE) Agencies need tested tools to
		      support the correct and efficient processing of digital
		      evidence. These tools further support the admission of
		      digital evidence to courts or other formal judicial proceedings.</p>
		      <p>Testing is difficult, expensive and time consuming.
		      Most LE agencies have similar core requirements for computer
		      forensics (CF) tools. The ability to share testing
		      materials and test report among agencies will result in
		      both cost savings and an increase in the number of tools
		      tested. It can also improve the quality of testing. In
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		      criteria and testing methods. </p>
		      <p>Federated Testing presents a plan to achieve inter-agency
		      sharing of high quality, relevant and usable test material
		      and test reports. This web site gives forensic laboratory
		      personal access to common test methods and test data for
		      testing digital forensic tools. Currently testing of one forensic
		      function is available, however additional tool functions are under
		      development.<br></p>
		      <h2>How to Use the Materials</h2>
		      The basic way, but not the only way, to use this site is as follows:<br>
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			<li>Select a tool function to test from this page. <br></li>
			<li>This takes you to a tool function specific page. The tool
			function page presents some background information, provides
			links to test data and test tools for download, and collects some
			information about what should be tested. Then a test plan is
			generated with test cases and a test report template. Each test
			case includes procedures to get or create test data, run the
			test case, and evaluate the test case results.</li>
		        <li>You then follow the generated test plan to set up test data,
			run test cases, evaluate the result and write a test report.</li>
			<li>If there are additional concerns that are not addressed in the
			generated test plan, more test cases may be included as desired.</li>
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			<p>Welcome to the Federated Testing Forensic Tool Testing Environment produced by the Computer 
            Forensics Tool Testing (CFTT) 
            project at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The purpose of this environment 
            is to allow forensic labs to test their forensic tools with the same rigor as CFTT 
            (see <a href="http://www.cftt.nist.gov">www.cftt.nist.gov</a>) and to generate sharable test reports with the 
            test results.</p>
<!--            Use this DVD to test your forensic tool and generate a test report with the test results.-->

            <p><img src="/images/info_black-128x128.png" alt="" height="24" width="24" style="margin:0px 0;">&nbsp;To get started, select the type of tool you want to test from the menu on the left.</p>
	
    		 <p><img src="/images/info_black-128x128.png" alt="" height="24" width="24" style="margin:0px 0;">&nbsp;If you need help or have questions email 
             <a href="mailto:CFTT@NIST.GOV">cftt@nist.gov</a>.<br></p>

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             computer</u> and your forensic tool on a second computer. But if you only have one computer
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