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Welcome to Simson Garfinkel's web site.

Simson L. Garfinkel is an Associate Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and an associate of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. His research interests include computer forensics, the emerging field of usability and security, personal information management, privacy, information policy and terrorism. (|Read full bio.)

Upcoming Tutorials

I will be teaching two tutorials on digital forensics at Usenix 2009 in San Diego.

Recent Publications

You may find these articles interesting:

• Light, but not Leightweights: Netbooks are more than just cheap laptops, http://www.technologyreview.com/ Technology Review], May/June 2009.
• Automating Disk Forensic Processing with SleuthKit, XML and Python (accepted to SADFE 2009).
• 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 Current Teaching Summer 2009 - CS3636 - Data Fusion with Online Information Fall 2009 - CS4920 - Automated Document and Media Exploitation Complete list of courses I have taught.

Useful Resources Print your own notepaper My Students (the most valuable resources that I have!) Mac Resources LaTeX Resources Python Resources Web Resources Windows Resources How to search the computer science literature XML Resources 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) Where to find me online ACM Digital Library Author Profile LinkedIn Profile Citeulike Profile ForensicsWiki User Page

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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