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A File Carving Algorithm for Digital Forensics

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Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2009 (ICCSA 2009)

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The File-Carving algorithm when doing file rehabilitation, the part is which important. “Carving” is the term most often used to indicate the act of recovering a file from unstructured digital forensic images. Until present time the file caring algorithm which becomes known the file is continuous, n case it knows Header and Footer information the file carving which is accurate becomes accomplished. The present paper the hazard which amends the problem point where the original broad way rehabilitation does not become a file and it amends a problem point design.

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Park, DG., Park, SJ., Lee, JC., No, SY., Shin, SY. (2009). A File Carving Algorithm for Digital Forensics. In: Gervasi, O., Taniar, D., Murgante, B., Laganà, A., Mun, Y., Gavrilova, M.L. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2009. ICCSA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5592. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02454-2_45

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