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The Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence (SWGDE) brings together organizations actively engaged in the field of digital and multimedia evidence to foster communication and cooperation as well as to ensure quality and consistency within the forensic community.

If these are your interests, we would like to welcome you to our site. We hope you will find the information found within to be of benefit.

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Mary Horvath, Chair
Federal Bureau of Investigation

James Darnell, Vice Chair
US Secret Service

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Membership

SWGDE is actively encouraging new membership! Learn about attending a meeting as a guest or applying for membership.

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Newest Publications

SWGDE's most recent published documents are:

SWGDE Best Practices for Digital Forensic Video Analysis
SWGDE Establishing Confidence in Digital Forensic Results by Error Mitigation Analysis
SWGDE Minimum Requirements for Testing Tools used in Digital and Multimedia Forensics

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Provide Feedback

SWGDE seeks feedback from the DME community on our drafts for public comment:

SWGDE Technical Overview for Forensic Image Comparison
SWGDE Position on the Use of MD5 and SHA1 Hash Algorithms in Digital and Multimedia Forensics
SWGDE General Photography Guidelines for the Documentation of Evidence Items in the Laboratory

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Myth of the Day

Compressed multimedia evidence is the best method of sharing and archiving because of reduced space.

Category: All DME Myths

Lossy Compression of multimedia is achieved by removing data that cannot be recovered. Therefore, all multimedia evidence should be archived and shared as uncompressed (as reasonable).

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