DFRWS Forensics Challenge Update / Reminder

[Brian Carrier <carrier () digital-evidence org>]

The DFRWS 2007 Forensics Challenge was announced a couple of months  
ago and this e-mail is to remind you and to notify you that we  
changed the rules slightly.

The 2007 challenge is about data carving, which is a file recovery  
technique that is frequently used during digital investigations.  
Files are "carved" from the unallocated space using file type- 
specific information, such as footers, headers, and internal  
structures.  This year's challenge builds upon last year's challenge  
and adds more complex file types and scenarios.  The goal is to  
develop new carving algorithms that have lower false positive rates.

We changed the rules so that submissions do not need to include full  
source code.  Pseudo code is acceptable as long as it is detailed  
enough so that someone could use it to implement the algorithm in  
another language and get the same results.  If pseudo code is  
submitted, then an executable must be included (although it will not  
be published on the DFRWS website after the challenge is over).

Submissions are due July 9, 2007.

http://www.dfrws.org/2007/challenge/

thanks,
brian