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Before we can make a product and release it for use, we
have to do our homework in several areas. These areas include the
technical details of the product, the feasibility, the effectiveness, and
the practicality of the final product. If you would like to suggest an area for
us to
research, please
let us know
.
Here are the areas we are currently researching. We cannot promise that we will
produce a final product for each area. Check back for updated details.
Biometric Authentication
The goal of this project is to provide a biometric means of authentication for
our software. By replacing passwords which are often simple an insecure with
authentication based on fingerprints, we can greatly increase the security of
the data stored by our products.
Classification of Chat Logs
We are researching the possibility of creating an application that will be able
to determine the probability that a chat log contains messages from an online
predator. Our solution does not simply search for keywords and phrases that are
commonly used by online predators, instead, we are researching the possibility
of employing statistical
techniques that will "score" each chat log. The score will represent the
probability that the chat log contains messages from an online predator. The
primary goal of this project is to help reduce the number the chat logs that
must be manually analyzed for content in an investigation.
File Search Software Utilizing NIST's National Software Reference Library (NSRL)
This project aims to create a file search utility that separate files in drives
or folders into two categories - those files included in the NSRL and those that
are not. The outcome is that the number of files that need to be manually
analyzed can be reduced. The database employed will be made accessible to other
products, such as Forensic P2P.
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