September 2012
Intermediate to advanced
744 pages
21h 5m
English
book
EnCE EnCase Computer Forensics: The Official EnCase Certified Examiner Study Guide, 3rd Edition
by Steve Bunting
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This chapter covered data in its binary and hexadecimal formats. You learned that various storage devices have physical, optical, or electrical states of positive or negative, yes or no, on or off, and so on, that are rendered into 1s and 0s. Binary (base-2) is a system based strictly on 1s and 0s and is the system used by computers to store and transmit data.
A bit is the smallest unit and can have two outcomes, 1 or 0. A byte consists of 8 bits and can have 256 possible outcomes. A byte consists of two 4-bit nibbles. Of those two nibbles, there is a left nibble and a right nibble. Each nibble can have 16 possible outcomes.
Two bytes combined is called a word, which is 16 bits. Four bytes combined is called a Dword, which is 32 bits. ...
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