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The '''National Software Reference Library''' (NSRL), a project of the [[National Institute of Standards and Technology]], is supported by the [[United States Department of Justice]]'s [[National Institute of Justice]], federal, state, and local law enforcement, and the [[National Institute of Standards and Technology]]. The group maintains a ''Reference Data Set'' of known software hashes.
 
In 2004 the NRSL released a set of hashes for verifying [[eVoting]] software, as part of the US [[Election Assistance Commission]]'s Electronic Voting Security Strategy.<ref name="cw" />
 
==Reference Data Set==
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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]].
 
As of June 1 2010 the Reference Data Set Versionis at version 2.14,29 Octoberand 2006, hascontains over 1117 million unique [[SHA-1]], [[MD5]] and [[CRC32]]hash values. The [[data set]] is available at no cost to the public.<ref name="readme" />
 
In 2004 the NRSL released a set of hashes for verifying [[eVoting]] software, as part of the US [[Election Assistance Commission]]'s Electronic Voting Security Strategy.<ref name="cw" />
 
==See also==
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<ref name="mead" >{{cite journal|author=Steve Mead|title=Unique file identification in the National Software Reference Library|journal=Digital Investigation|volume=3|issue=3|month=September|year=2006|pages=138-150|issn=1742-2876Zsoi=10.1016/j.diin.2006.08.010.|url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B7CW4-4M645BK-2/2/bbb6f9b5e4d08b3767387411bb80915b}}</ref>
<ref name="readme">{{cite web|title=http://www.nsrl.nist.gov/RDS/rds_2.29/READ_ME.txt|url=RDS Readme.txt|accessdate=1 September 2010}}</ref>
<ref name="cw">{{cite web|last=Verton|first=Dan|title=Feds Issue Test Copies of E-voting Software|url=http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/97070/Feds_Issue_Test_Copies_of_E_voting_Software|publisher=Computer World|accessdate=1 September 2010}}</ref>
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