The Coroner's Toolkit (or TCT) is a suite of free

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programs by

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and

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for digital forensic analysis. The suite runs under several

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-related

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, SunOS/

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, and

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. TCT is released under the terms of the

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. Parts of TCT can be used to aid analysis of and data recovery from computer disasters. TCT was superseded by

The Sleuth Kit The Sleuth Kit (TSK) is a library and collection of Unix- and Windows-based utilities for extracting data from disk drives and other storage so as to facilitate the forensic analysis of computer systems. It forms the foundation for Autopsy, a bet ...

. Although TSK is only partially based on TCT, the authors of TCT have accepted it as official successor to TCT.

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