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NSRL Presentations

Presentations covering aspects of the NSRL are available in PDF and HTML format.

  • "The NSRL and Video Games; Why I get to Buy Video Games at the Office" at Forensics @ NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, November 7, 2018. - PDF
  • "Enumerating and Analyzing Storage Data with Digital Forensics XML" at CurateGear 2015, Chapel Hill, NC, January 7, 2015. - PDF
  • "National Software Reference Library" at Forensics @ NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, December 3, 2014. - PDF
  • "NSRL Next Generation - Diskprinting" at Forensics @ NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, December 3, 2014. - PDF
  • "Overview of Digital Forensics at NIST" at 6th International Conference on Digital Forensics & Cyber Crime , September 19, 2014, New Haven, CT - PDF
  • "National Software Reference Library: Applications in Digital Forensics" at The American Academy of Forensic Sciences 66th Annual Scientific Meeting , February 20, 2014, Seattle, WA - PDF
  • "Tracking the Effects of Software on Systems: A Forensic Metadata Collection" at The American Academy of Forensic Sciences 66th Annual Scientific Meeting , February 20, 2014, Seattle, WA - PDF
  • "Indexing the Windows® Registry for Software Detection" at The American Academy of Forensic Sciences 66th Annual Scientific Meeting , February 20, 2014, Seattle, WA - PDF
  • "Preserving Software at Scale: The Stephen Cabrinety Collection" with Michael Olson (Stanford) at Digital Library Federation , November 5, 2013, Austin, TX - Slideshare
  • "An Application Footprint Reference Set: Tracking the Lifetime of Software" at U.S. Department of Defense Cyber Crime Conference 2012 , January 26, 2012, Atlanta, GA - PDF
  • "The NSRL and Its Potential Role in Digital Curation" at CurateGear: Enabling the Curation of Digital Collections , January 6, 2012, Chapel Hill, NC - PDF
  • "Cyber-Infrastructure Uses for the NIST NSRL" at IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security , May 12, 2009, Boston - PDF
  • "NIST's National Software Reference Library" at The Computer Forensics Show , April 28, 2009, DC - PDF
  • "Smart Unpacking : Understanding Files Through Patterns" at AAFS , February 19, 2009, Denver , CO - PDF
  • "A Process for Verifiable Digital Evidence and Data Preservation" at AAFS , February 21, 2008, Washington, DC - PDF
  • "Virtual Machines in Computer Forensics Research" at AAFS , February 21, 2008, Washington, DC - PDF
  • "Tracking Computer Use with the Windows Registry Dataset" at AAFS , February 21, 2008, Washington, DC - PDF
  • "Built for Speed: Using Bloom Filters for File Identification" at AAFS , February 21, 2008, Washington, DC - PDF
  • "Hashing of File Blocks: When Exact Matches Are Not Useful" at AAFS , February 21, 2008, Washington, DC - PDF
  • "Smart Unpacking Research: Using Mathematics To Unpack More" at AAFS , February 21, 2008, Washington, DC - PDF
  • "Current Activities in the NSRL" at Techno Forensics , November 7, 2006, MD - PDF
  • "NSRL" at Mid-Atlantic Chapter HTCIA Meeting , September 28, 2005, VA - PDF
  • "Identification of Known Files on Computer Systems" at AAFS Annual Meeting , February 24, 2005, New Orleans, LA - PDF
  • NSRL overview at NARA/UMD/SDSC Partnerships in Innovation , November 16, 2004, College Park, MD - PDF
  • Digital Forensics Using Hashsets - NSRL (DFRWS track) , August 13, 2004, Linthicum, MD - HTML
  • Report to the Election Assistance Commission , July 13, 2004, Washington D.C. - PDF
  • YAPC::NA 2004, June 2004, Buffalo - PDF
  • "Effectiveness of Hash Sets", DoD Cyber Crime Conference , December 2003 - PDF
  • Article on NIST/NARA project published in NLECTC TechBeat , Fall 2003
  • CFTT/NSRL for "Securing the Homeland, September 2003" - PDF
  • Informal "Perl in the History of NSRL" for the Perl Mongers , September 2003 - HTML
  • RCFG GMU 2003, August 2003, Fairfax - PDF
  • Slides on Hashing mentioned at DFRWS, August 2003, Cleveland - PDF
  • FLETC, May 2003, Georgia - PDF
  • Technosecurity, May 2003, Myrtle Beach - PDF
  • Digital Library Federation, March 2003, Wash. D.C. - PDF
  • YAPC 2002 September 2002, Munich - PDF
  • RCFG GMU 2002, August 2002, Fairfax - PDF

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Created May 3, 2016, Updated January 27, 2022