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The Advanced Forensic Format --- AFF(tm) --- is an extensible open
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format for the storage of disk images and related forensic
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information.
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- Open format, free from any patent or license restriction.
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Can be used with both open-source and proprietary forensic tools.
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- Extensible. Any amount of metadata can be encoded in AFF files in the
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format of name/value pairs.
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- Efficient. AFF supports both compression and seeking within
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compressed files.
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- Open Source C/C++ Implementation. A freely redistributable C/C++
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implementation including the AFF Library and basic conversion tools
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is available for download. AFFLIB(tm) is being distributed under the BSD
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license, allowing it to be incorporated in free and proprietary
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programs without the need to pay license fees.
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- Byte-order independent. AFFLib has been tested on both Intel and
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PowerPC-based systems. Images created on one platform can be read on
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another.
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- Automatic calculation and storage of MD5 and SHA-1 hash codes,
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allowing AFF files to be automatically validated after they are
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copied to check for accidentally corruption.
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- Explicit identification of sectors that could not be read from the
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original disk.
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- Planned support for digital signatures and direct authoring of AFF
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files using dd_recover.
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