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DROID 6 has many new features which improve the speed, accuracy and your exploration of its results.  Behind the scenes, it introduces some new capabilities to allow signatures for new file formats to be developed more easily, and with greater power to match difficult file formats.

Speed

Accuracy

Reporting

Exporting

Filtering

User interface

Container signatures

Binary signature syntax

The syntax of the signatures used by the binary signature engine has been enhanced, both in terms of readability and fundamental expressivity. In addition to existing syntax, it allows for text strings, case insensitive text strings and arbitrary sets of bytes.  These features can be mixed together in ways which the previous engine cannot process.  This makes it easier to create new signatures, and to understand existing ones.  In some cases, several old signatures can be combined into one signature, which increases the speed of DROID.

The new syntax will be documented in other technical documentation, and will not appear in signature files for some time until users of DROID have updated to the newer engine.  Some of the new syntax can be seen in the container signature files, which do not have backward compatibility issues.

 

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