the sdhash tutorial

authors:Vassil Roussev, Candice Quates date:August 06, 2013 version:0.8

Contents:

• Introduction
  • Use cases
  • Lay of the tutorial
  • License
• Installation
  • Download
  • Linux
  • Windows
  • MacOS
• sdhash license
• Quick start
  • Digest generation
  • Digest comparison
  • Threshold (-t)
  • Result interpretation
• Understanding your options
  • Block-aligned hashes (-b)
  • Segmentation (-z)
  • Parallel execution (-p)
  • File list (-f) and recursion (-r)
  • Generate & compare (-g)
  • Standard input (-) and naming ([--hash-name])
  • Custom configuration ([--config-file])
  • The simple options
• Advanced processing
  • GPU acceleration
  • Sampling (-s)
  • Indexing [--index] [--index-dir arg]
  • Client/server processing
• Case studies
  • Files vs. dumps
  • Files vs. files