Forensic Software Testing Support Tools: Test Summary Report

The Computer Forensics Tool Testing (CFTT) project at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the United States Department of Commerce, provides a measure of confidence in the software tools used in computer forensic investigations. CFTT focuses on a class of tools called disk-imaging tools that copy or “image” hard disk drives. Forensic Software Testing Support Tools (FS-TST) is a software package that supports the testing of disk imaging tools. FS-TST includes 15 tools that perform hard disk initialization, faulty disk simulation, hard disk comparisons, extraction of information from a hard disk, and copying of disks or disk partitions. This NIST Interagency/Internal Report consists of two parts. Part A, covers the planning, design and specification of testing the tools included in the FS-TST package. Part B, which is this document, covers the test summary report. The testing was independently performed by VDG, Inc. under contract to NIST.