I’m posting this message on behalf of my colleague at QCC Information Security, John Douglas, who has just released a free tool for securely recording contemporaneous notes during a forensic exam.
The purpose of CaseNotes is to provide a single lightweight application program to run on the Microsoft Windows platform to allow forensic analysts and examiners of any discipline to securely record their contemporaneous notes electronically.
The main features are
- Flexible configuration of case meta-data (case details, like the reference number, etc.)
- Secure “write-once, read-many†style of case note data capture
- Full audit trail of case note data entry and meta data edits in a self contained log
- Tamper evident storage of data using internal MD5 hashes for all data entered
- No use of heavy database technologies – all you need is the program and your case file
- Use of AES 512bit encryption (optional) to further secure data in sensitive cases
- Storage of configuration information in a user editable text based .ini file
- Support for running multiple copies of CaseNotes at the same time
- Tested and works in languages other than English (Japanese, Russian, Greek, Italian, …)
- Tested on Windows XP, Server 2003 and Windows Vista. (sorry if you use a Mac)
- It’s free! That means no dongles and no restrictions on how many copies you use!
You can download the program from
Awesome Jonathon I can't wait to try it out.
Bryan
Bryan,
I just sent you a PM…
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Hi there,
I'm the author of CaseNotes and just wanted to apologise to those of you in the US (with a MM/DD/YYYY date format) or those using a 12hr time display for the initial problems getting CaseNotes to work.
It's my fault for having a set of beta testers entirely in the UK and in Europe! I've fixed this problem and have released a new version of CaseNotes which is now able to work in any Windows supported date/time format.
The code is available at
Once again, my apologies. oops
Kind regards,
John Douglas.
QCC Information Security,
London, UK.
Thanks for this excellent software John. I passed this info on over at another forensics site as well.
KP