MD 5 Project

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Overview

• Purpose

• Install Steps

• Installation Snapshots

• MD5 Summer in action

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Purpose

• The MD5 Project is intended to give you practical experience in using a classical forensics tool that is used during the various phases of the forensic process

• Actual project requirements will be available in a separate handout

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Install Steps

• Where to Find on WWW

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/md5summer/

• Install Steps:

Create MD5SUMMER directory

Download ZIP file from URL

UNZIP the downloaded file

Where to Get it on the WWW

Download this one.

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Installing

• Simply unzip the downloaded file to install

• Following slides show how MD5 Summer looks as you execute the various options

• From download to first execution took me about 6 minutes

• An MD5 computation of the Windows System directory took 5 minutes

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After Download

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After Unzipping File

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MD5 Summer-Choosing Root Directory

Command Keys

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MD5 Summer-Selecting Files

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MD5 Summer-Selecting Files

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MD5 Summer-Executing

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MD5 Summer-Verifying