Simson L. Garfinkel

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Create issue for creating each requested codec

@jonstewart, please open a separate ticket for each of these. Thanks.

bulk_extractor does not build hashdb 3.1.0 support when hashdb is a static library

Thank you for documenting this. I look forward to receiving your pull request!

Set environment variable LC_ALL to C

Perhaps in a config file?

Take input files to scan from a config file.

It doesn’t follow symbolic links to avoid loops and to prevent a mounted file system from analyzing your host directory. How many symlinks are in your link directory? Why not...

Take input files to scan from a config file.

How about an input config file that specifies the targets? ---- Sent from my phone. On Jan 19, 2021, at 6:32 AM, gerhardj wrote:  I see. I will do...

Create Dockerfile for building bulk_extractor

I haven't had problems building on either Ubuntu or on MacOS. Did you look at the CI scripts? * https://github.com/simsong/bulk_extractor/blob/slg-dev/.github/workflows/continuous-integration-pip.yml

Create Dockerfile for building bulk_extractor

> I haven't had problems building on either Ubuntu or on MacOS. Did you look at the CI scripts? > > * https://github.com/simsong/bulk_extractor/blob/slg-dev/.github/workflows/continuous-integration-pip.yml Of course, that's not testing with libewf...

Change lightgrep scanners to use lookaround assertions

What is the advantage of doing this? And how do we test it? And don’t these things dramatically increase processing time?

Change lightgrep scanners to use lookaround assertions

Makes sense. I would really like to have some performance comparisons between the flex scanners and lightgrep. We should be sure to put that in the paper.

bulk_extractor wordlist should be rewritten to use la-strings.

This would be nice. The problem with this approach is that pretty much any random sequence of bytes will produce valid UTF-16 with the Han characters, so you're going to...