title: Integrating Python with Leading Computer Forensics Platforms
author:  Chet Hosmer 
description: Chet Hosmer is the Founder of Python Forensics, Inc. a non-profit organization focused on the collaborative development of open-source investigative technologies using the Python programming language. Chet serves as a visiting professor at Utica College in the Cybersecurity Graduate program where his research and teaching focus on advanced steganography/data hiding methods and related defenses. He is also an Adjunct Faculty member at Champlain College in the Masters of Science in Digital Forensic Science Program where he is researching and working with graduate students to advance the application Python to solve hard problems facing digital investigators.
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  I would like to dedicate the book to the students who will be using it. I wish
  you future career success and hope you never stop learning.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  TABLE OF CONTENT
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Python Forensics - Introduction
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Python Forensics - Installation of Python
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Python Forensics - Overview of Python
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Python Forensics - Basic Forensic Application
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Python Forensics - Hash Function
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Python Forensics - Cracking an Encryption
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Python Forensics - Virtualization
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Python Forensics - Network Forensics
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Python Forensics - Python Modules
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Python Forensics - Ds