Reducing the Time Required for Hashing Operations

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Breitinger, F., & Petrov, K. (2013). Reducing the Time Required for Hashing Operations. Paper presented at the Advances in Information and Communication Technolgy.

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Abstract

Due to the increasingly massive amounts of data that need to be analyzed in digital forensic investigations, it is necessary to automatically recognize suspect files and filter out non-relevant files. To achieve this goal, digital forensic practitioners employ hashing algorithms to classify files into known-good, known-bad and unknown files. However, a typical personal computer may store hundreds of thousands of files and the task becomes extremely time-consuming. This paper attempts to address the problem using a framework that speeds up processing by using multiple threads. Unlike a typical multithreading approach, where the hashing algorithm is performed by multiple threads, the proposed framework incorporates a dedicated prefetcher thread that reads files from a device. Experimental results demonstrate a runtime efficiency of nearly 40% over single threading.

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  • Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik
  • Hilti Lehrstuhl für Daten- und Anwendungssicherheit

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http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1007/978-3-642-41148-9_7