The Impact of SHA-1 File Hash Collisions On Digital Forensic Imaging: A Follow-up Experiment

Gary C Kessler

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Abstract

A previous paper described an experiment showing that Message Digest 5 (MD5) hash collisions of files have no impact on integrity verification in the forensic imaging process. This paper describes a similar experiment applied when two files have a Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-1) collision.

Original languageAmerican English
JournalDefault journal
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 31 2016
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • SHA-1 hash collisions
  • forensic imaging
  • computer forensics
  • digital forensics

Disciplines

  • Computer Engineering
  • Computer Law
  • Computer Sciences
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Forensic Science and Technology
  • Information Security

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