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## Software Quality Group

-  National Software Reference Library (NSRL)  Expand or Collapse    -  Curated Kaspersky Hash Set - 2017 
  -  About the NSRL  Expand or Collapse      -  NSRL Introduction 
    -  Library Contents 
    -  NSRL Frequently Asked Questions 
  -  NSRL Download  Expand or Collapse      -  Current RDS Hash Sets 
    -  Non-RDS Hash Sets 
    -  RDS Query Tools 
    -  NSRL Legacy Tool Downloads 
  -  NSRL Subprojects  Expand or Collapse      -  Diskprints 
    -  NSRL Unique File Corpus 
    -  NSRL and Voting System Software 
  -  Technical Information  Expand or Collapse      -  Approximate Matching 
    -  DFXML Schema 
    -  NSRL Presentations 
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  -  Subscribe  Expand or Collapse      -  NSRL Subscription Information 
    -  Redistribution Policy for NIST NSRL RDS 
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# NSRL Presentations

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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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