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Recent Publications You may find these articles interesting: Automating Disk Forensic Processing with SleuthKit, XML and Python (in submission). Finding and Archiving the Internet Footprint, invited paper, presented at the First Digital Lives Research Conference: Personal Digital Archives for the 21st Century, London, England, 9--11 February 2009. Garfinkel, S., Providing Cryptographic Security and Evidentiary Chain-of-Custody with the Advanced Forensic Format, Library, and Tools The International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics, Volume 1, Issue 1, January-March 2009. Current Research Sub-Linear Drive Analysis The Real Data Corpus: Building an unclassified research corpora of disk images from around the world. Automated Document and Media Exploitation Human Subject Data and computer security research Aligning Security and Usability Data Fusion You can find a complete list of my research on my Research page. Current Projects The Advanced Forensics Format (AFF), a new format for storing images of magnetic and electronic digital media. The Forensics Wiki. I founded this wiki, monitor it, and occasionally contribute. Pervasive Signed Email. Now that roughly 90% of all Internet users have S/MIME-compliant mail programs, it's time for companies like PayPal and Amazon to be sending out digitally signed mail as a matter of course. It would help in the fight against both spam and phishing. How can we get them to do it? [Read the CHI 2005 paper.] I am the program co-chair for the 2009 Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security Completed Projects NeXTWORLD Magazine (1991--1993) SBook5, a free-format address book for MacOS. (1991--2006) 10 Spring Street, Vineyard Haven, Virtual Tour (1995) Agenda, the conference scheduling app for PalmOS. (2001) Notepaper Generator. Print your own notebook paper! (2003) Stream, an opportunistic encryption proxy. (2003) Current Teaching Summer 2009 - CS3636 - Data Fusion with Online Information Fall 2009 - CS4920 - Automated Document and Media Exploitation You can find a complete list of the courses that I have taught on my Courses page.

Useful Resources Print your own notepaper My Students (the most valuable resources that I have!) LaTeX Resources How to search the computer science literature Where to find me online ACM Digital Library Author Profile Other sites of interest http://ex.nitroba.org — All that's left of Deus Ex Machina Software now that we sold the ex.com domain. http://dmr.nitroba.org — Donald M. Rosenberg's online site (his papers are at the Michigan State University Archives). http://realworlddocs.com — My father's newly published book on document drafting. http://forensicwiki.org — Wiki for computer forensics