[sleuthkit-users] Autopsy Module Writing Competition

[Brian C. <ca...@sl...>]

Basis Technology is hosting another Autopsy module writing competition around OSDFCon.   Submissions can be entirely new analysis techniques or wrappers around existing tools. A primary goal of Autopsy 3 was to be a digital forensics platform so that users could use a single tool to perform their investigations and not waste time moving data around between various stand-alone tools.  We've built the infrastructure and now we need developers to write modules so that we can all achieve the original goal from OSDFCon 2010.

Last year, the winners developed registry parsing and fuzzy hashing modules.  This year, we're looking for even better submissions.   OSDFCon attendees will vote on who gets the cash prizes. Submissions are due Oct 20, 2014.   Rules are available on the website:

    http://www.basistech.com/osdfcon-contest/

If you are looking for ideas, the above site has a link to a set of feature requests that have been submitted.   Note that we also sponsored a student-based competition this year too.  This competition is different.  It has bigger prizes and is timed based on OSDFCon and not semesters (http://www.basistech.com/digital-forensics/autopsy/autopsy-for-educators/student-development-contest/). 

thanks,
brian