Sharpening Your Tools

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Garfinkel, Simson; Stewart, Jon
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Abstract
Bulk_extractor is a high-performance digital forensics tool written in C++. Between 2018 and 2022 we updated the program from C++98 to C++17, performed a complete code refactoring, and adopted a unit test framework. The new version typically runs with 75% more throughput than the previous version, which we attribute to improved multithreading. We provide lessons and recommendations for other digital forensics tool maintainers.
Date issued
2023-07-25
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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/152174
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ACM|Communications of the ACM
Citation
Garfinkel, Simson and Stewart, Jon. 2023. "Sharpening Your Tools."
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0001-0782
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