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SARC Releases Expanded Steganography Hash Set
Newest Version of Steganography Application Fingerprint Database (SAFDB) Now Available
PRESS RELEASE
April 30, 2008
FAIRMONT, WV - Backbone Security, the industry leader in advanced digital steganalysis
tools, is pleased to announce the latest version of the Steganography
Application Fingerprint Database (SAFDB), the world’s largest commercially
available hash set exclusive to steganography applications.
Developed in Backbone’s Steganography Analysis and Research Center (SARC), SAFDB
version 3.3 contains the fingerprints, or hash values, of every file artifact associated
with 725 steganography applications.
SAFDB is widely used by US and international law enforcement agencies; the intelligence
community; and private sector computer forensic examiners to detect steganography
applications on seized digital media. The existence of an application is a strong
indication the application was used to conceal evidence of criminal activity.
SAFDB contains the hash values of all file artifacts associated with the 725 applications
in the database computed with the CRC-32 and MD5 hashing algorithms plus all five
of the algorithms specified in the Secure Hash Standard, FIPS 180-2. The database
also includes the artifact file name, file size, associated application name, in
addition to other information about each file artifact and steganography application.
An MD5 extract of the database is available at no cost 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 v3.3, please visit http://www.sarc-wv.com/register.aspx.
SAFDB is an integral part of the Steganography Analyzer
Artifact Scanner, or 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.