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The RDS is a collection of [[message digest]]s of known, traceable software applications. There are application [[hash function]] values in the hash set which may be considered malicious, i.e. [[steganography]] tools and [[hack (technology slang)|hacking]] scripts. NIST maintains a collection of original software media in order to provide repeatability of the calculated hash values, ensuring admissibility of this data in [[court]].

Reference Data Set Version 2.814, MarchOctober 20052006, has over 1011 million unique [[SHA-1]], [[MD5]] and [[CRC32]] values. The Data Set is available at no cost to the public.

The NSRL gained visibility in 2004 in conjunction with [[voting]] initiatives, most notably in the U.S. [[Election Assistance Commission]] Electronic Voting Security Strategy.