Validation and verification of computer forensic software tools-Searching Function

Digital Investigation

Volumn 6, Issue SUPPL., 2009, Pages

  Guo, Yinghua ^a   Slay, Jill ^a   Beckett, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computer forensics; Electronic evidence; Searching; Validation; Verification

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CRIME; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MAPPING; VERIFICATION;

ELECTRONIC EVIDENCES; FORENSIC INVESTIGATION; FUNCTION MAPPING; REFERENCE SET; SEARCHING; VALIDATION; VALIDATION AND VERIFICATION;

COMPUTER FORENSICS;

EID: 68949135999     PISSN: 17422876     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diin.2009.06.015     Document Type: Article

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