The Coroner's Toolkit
Encyclopedia
The Coroner's Toolkit (or TCT) is a suite of computer security programs by Dan Farmer
and Wietse Venema
. It is used to assist in digital forensic analysis.
The suite runs on FreeBSD
, OpenBSD
, BSD/OS
, SunOS
/Solaris and Linux
. There is also a port to HP-UX
.
Parts of TCT are also somewhat applicable to analysis of and data recovery from other computer disasters.
It is free software
released under the terms of the IBM Public License
.
Dan Farmer
Dan Farmer is an American computer security researcher. In a summer course in 1989, in order to graduate from Purdue University he started the development of the COPS program for identifying security issues on Unix systems under Gene Spafford, first releasing it after leaving Purdue in late 1989...
and Wietse Venema
Wietse Venema
Dr. Wietse Zweitze Venema is a Dutch programmer and physicist best known for writing the Postfix email system. He also wrote TCP Wrapper and collaborated with Dan Farmer and Samuel Johnson to produce the computer security tools SATAN and The Coroner's Toolkit.-Biography:He studied physics at the...
. It is used to assist in digital forensic analysis.
The suite runs on FreeBSD
FreeBSD
FreeBSD is a free Unix-like operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via BSD UNIX. Although for legal reasons FreeBSD cannot be called “UNIX”, as the direct descendant of BSD UNIX , FreeBSD’s internals and system APIs are UNIX-compliant...
, OpenBSD
OpenBSD
OpenBSD is a Unix-like computer operating system descended from Berkeley Software Distribution , a Unix derivative developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It was forked from NetBSD by project leader Theo de Raadt in late 1995...
, BSD/OS
BSD/OS
BSD/OS was a proprietary version of the BSD operating system developed by Berkeley Software Design, Inc. ....
, SunOS
SunOS
SunOS is a version of the Unix operating system developed by Sun Microsystems for their workstation and server computer systems. The SunOS name is usually only used to refer to versions 1.0 to 4.1.4 of SunOS...
/Solaris and Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
. There is also a port to HP-UX
HP-UX
HP-UX is Hewlett-Packard's proprietary implementation of the Unix operating system, based on UNIX System V and first released in 1984...
.
Parts of TCT are also somewhat applicable to analysis of and data recovery from other computer disasters.
It is free software
Free software
Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...
released under the terms of the IBM Public License
IBM Public License
The IBM Public License is a free software / open-source software license written and sometimes used by IBM.It is approved by the Open Source Initiative and is described as a "free software license" by the Free Software Foundation ....
.