This year, Purdue is sponsoring the 6th Annual Digital Forensic Research Workshop (DFRWS 2006). The event will take place in Lafayette, IN, from August 14-16, 2006. The paper submission deadline has been extended to May 1, 2006, at 6 AM EST.

Topics of Interest

We are looking for research papers, demo proposals, and panel proposals. Major areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

    * Incident response and live analysis
    * OS and application analysis
    * Multimedia analysis
    * File system analysis
    * Memory analysis
    * Network analysis
    * Data hiding and recovery
    * Event reconstruction
    * Large-scale investigations
    * Data mining techniques
    * Automated searching
    * Tool testing and development
    * Digital evidence storage formats
    * Digital evidence and the law
    * Traceback and attribution
    * Physical media analysis
    * Case studies and trend reports
    * Non-traditional approaches to forensic analysis