Nist software reference library

For more information, visit the NSRL website at: www. This project is supported by the U. Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice NIJ , federal, state, and local law enforcement, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST to promote efficient and effective use of computer technology in the investigation of crimes involving computers. Numerous other sponsoring organizations from law enforcement, government, and industry are providing resources to accomplish these goals, in particular the FBI who provided the major impetus for creating the NSRL out of their ACES program.

Contributing to the NSRL shows a strong commitment to corporate citizenship. Much of the use of the NSRL will be to speed the investigative process. This directly helps law enforcement solve cases faster and with less cost. To contribute, a company needs to either send NIST off-the-shelf versions of their software or provide NIST the ability to download software from a corporate website.

Contributors receive one release of the RDS free of charge. The free release is traditionally the next quarterly release after the donation, so that the donated software is included. Please send questions or comments to nsrl [at] nist. Software Quality Group. Library Contents. The RDS can be used by law enforcement, government, and industry organizations to review files on a computer by matching file profiles in the RDS.

This will help alleviate much of the effort involved in determining which files are important as evidence on computers or file systems that have been seized as part of criminal investigations. The RDS is a collection of digital signatures of known, traceable software applications.

There are application hash values in the hash set which may be considered malicious, i. There are no hash values of illicit data, i.