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SARC Releases Expanded Steganography Hash Set
New Version of Steganography Application Fingerprint Database (SAFDB) Now Available
PRESS RELEASE
February 5, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - Backbone Security, the industry leader in advanced digital steganalysis
tools, announced the latest version of their market leading
Steganography Application Fingerprint Database (SAFDB) at the opening of
The Computer Forensics Show in the DC Convention Center.
Developed in Backbone's Steganography Analysis and Research Center (SARC), SAFDB
version 3.2 contains the fingerprints, or hash values, of every file artifact associated
with 675 steganography applications.
SAFDB is the world's largest commercially available hash set exclusive to digital
steganography and other information hiding applications and is widely used by Federal,
state and local law enforcement; intelligence community; and private sector digital
forensic examiners to detect the presence of a steganography application on seized
digital media. The existence of an artifact of a steganography application is a
strong indication the application was used to conceal digital evidence that may
be of probative value in a criminal investigation.
Version 3.2 contains the hash values of each file artifact computed with the CRC-32,
MD5, SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512 algorithms along with the artifact
file name, file size, and other information about each file artifact.
A free extract of the database, with MD5 hashes only, is available to qualifying
U.S. and international law enforcement, government, and intelligence agency digital
forensic examiners.
The extract is available in formats that can be imported into EnCase, FTK, HashKeeper,
ILook, and ProDiscover. For information on registering for access to the free MD5
extract of SAFDB v3.2, please visit http://www.sarc-wv.com.
SAFDB is an integral part of the Steganography Analyzer
Artifact Scanner, StegAlyzerAS. In addition to being the most comprehensive
steganography artifact detection tool currently available on the market, StegAlyzerAS
also offers the unique capability to detect Windows registry artifacts which may
make it possible to determine a particular steganography application was used even
if the user uninstalled the application and deleted the associated files and folders.
About the SARC - The SARC is a Center of Excellence in digital steganography research and development within Backbone Security. The SARC has established the worlds largest commercially available repository of digital steganography applications, fingerprints, and signatures and has developed industry leading computer forensics and network security steganalysis tools for detecting and extracting information hidden with digital steganography applications.
About Backbone Security - In addition to the world class digital steganography research and development conducted in the SARC, Backbone is an Approved Scanning Vender (ASV) certified by the Payment Card Industry-(PCI) Security Standards Council to conduct automated PCI Data Security Standard compliance assessments with a One-Stop Scanning Solution.