Research Topics

Research Ideas

Interested in doing research in computer forensics? Looking for a master's topic, or just some ideas for a research paper? Here is my list. Please feel free to add your own ideas.

Stream Based Disk Forensics.

Process the entire disk with one pass, or at most two, to minimize seek time.

Automatically detect falsified digital evidence.

Detect and diagnose sanitization attempts.

AFF Enhancement

Replaceme the AFF "BADFLAG" approach for indicating bad data with a bad sector bitmap.

Modify aimage so that it can take a partial disk image and a disk and just image what's missing.

Improve the data recovery features of aimage.

Replace AFF's current table-of-contents system with one based on B+ Trees.

Decoders and Validators

Create a JPEG decompresser that supports restarts and checkpointing for use in high-speed carving.

Cell Phones

Develop source tools for:

Imaging the contents of a cell phone memory

Reassembling information in a cell phone memory

Corpora Development

Realistic Corpora

• Simulated disk imags
• Simulated network traffic

Real Data

• Digital Cameras
• Cell phones
• USB Memory Sticks below the logical layer.