More NSRL Talk Ive spent a bit more time study the NSRL problem. It is a fantastic but unwieldy database of hash values that is under utilized (at least in my experience). I spoke in my last post about importing the NSRL database into SQLite so the data can be better managed. I added at the end of the post that I had created a pair of shell scripts, getnsrl and mknsrl to automate SQLite creation. I am happy to report that I have extended mknsrl to fully handle the NSRL database. My first version only imported the file table which contains the hash values. I thought, incorrectly, that this would be sufficient for generating has sets. I had not fully understood the NSRL Reference Data Set (RDS) construction, which actually consists of five CSV files: NSRLFile.txt NSRLMfg.txt NSRLOS.txt NSRLProd.txt version.txt The NSRLFile.txt is broken into four parts that need to be concatenated together. Currently, this database contains over ...