Forensics and Law Enforcement

See also Law

Forensic images of disks and computer network data
In the course of investigations, detectives sometimes need to preserve digital information. These are formats used in this process. See also Disk Image Formats. In contrast to those raw disk images, forensic formats also store various metadata as well as hash tables to track the origin of data and ensure it is not altered after the fact.


 * Advanced Forensics Format (AFF)
 * Advanced Forensics Metadata (AFM)
 * Digital Evidence Bag (DEB)
 * EnCase hash map (Expert Witness)
 * Expert Witness

Biometrics
See also Fingerprints


 * ANSI 378 (used to store minutae of fingerprints)
 * ANSI 379 (used to store images of irises)
 * ANSI 381 (used to store images of fingerprints)
 * ANSI 385 (used to store face recognition data)
 * CBEFF
 * ISO 19794-2 (used to store minutae of fingerprints)
 * NIST IHead (one of its uses is storing fingerprint images)
 * WSQ (used to store images of fingerprints)

Mobile-related

 * Cellebrite UFED Report (.ufdr)
 * Oxygen Backup XML
 * MOBILedit Backup XML
 * MOBILedit Backup Package

Oxygen

 * Oxygen Cloud Backup
 * Oxygen Forensic Backup
 * Oxygen Desktop Backup
 * Oxygen UICC Image
 * Oxygen Agent Extraction

Cloud Warrant Return

 * Apple iCloud Warrant Return
 * Google Warrant Return
 * Facebook Warrent Return
 * Skype Warrant Return
 * Snapchat Warrant Return
 * Discord Warrant Return
 * Instagram Warrant Return

Links

 * ShmooCon 2014 - You Don't Have the Evidence (January 2014) (video)
 * The Sleuth Kit and Autopsy can read raw, Expert Witness, and AFF formats
 * Is AFF the best choice for digital preservationists who create images?