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EnCE EnCase Computer Forensics: The Official EnCase Certified Examiner Study Guide, 3rd Edition
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EnCE EnCase Computer Forensics: The Official EnCase Certified Examiner Study Guide, 3rd Edition

by Steve Bunting
September 2012
Intermediate to advanced
744 pages
21h 5m
English
Sybex
Content preview from EnCE EnCase Computer Forensics: The Official EnCase Certified Examiner Study Guide, 3rd Edition

Chapter 5

EnCase Concepts

EnCE Exam Topics Covered in This Chapter:

  • EnCase evidence file
  • CRC, MD5, and SHA-1
  • EnCase evidence file format
  • New evidence file format
  • Evidence file verification
  • Hashing disks and volumes
  • EnCase case file
  • EnCase backup utility
  • Configuration, or .INI, files
  • Evidence cache folder

This book has made numerous references to the EnCase evidence file. I’ve talked about many of its properties, such as compression, file chunk size, protection via password, MD5 hash, and CRC frequency. In this chapter, I’ll closely examine the evidence file. I’ll describe its major components and its various properties in detail. The evidence file, as you’ll see, is constructed to maintain the authenticity and integrity of the original evidence, ...

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