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On The Database Lookup Problem Of Approximate Matching, Frank Breitinger, Harald Baier, Douglas White
On The Database Lookup Problem Of Approximate Matching, Frank Breitinger, Harald Baier, Douglas White
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Investigating seized devices within digital forensics gets more and more difficult due to the increasing amount of data. Hence, a common procedure uses automated file identification which reduces the amount of data an investigator has to look at by hand. Besides identifying exact duplicates, which is mostly solved using cryptographic hash functions, it is also helpful to detect similar data by applying approximate matching.
Let x denote the number of digests in a database, then the lookup for a single similarity digest has the complexity of O(x). In other words, the digest has to be compared against …