Re: [Libguestfs] hivexml - Flattened vs. Expanded XML

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 01:45:34PM -0700, Simson Garfinkel wrote: 'hivexml' is really just a demo program that I wrote. You can change the XML format or even rewrite it -- the whole program is only 345 lines of code. http://git.annexia.org/?p=hivex.git;a=blob;f=xml/hivexml.c;hb=HEAD If you are interested in forensic analysis, it might be worth looking at the analysis tools we wrote as well / instead: http://git.annexia.org/?p=hivex.git;a=tree;f=lib/tools;hb=HEAD These analysis tools look at the registry in much more detail and can look for inconsistencies, hidden keys etc. which we don't care so much about in the main hivex library. One issue that may be of concern is string encoding in registry values, which is not well defined. Naturally for XML I suppose you'd want to represent string values as UTF-8. However it's almost impossible to know for sure how strings are encoded in the registry, so doing this conversion would either involve a heuristic, or you'd have to store binary blobs in the XML (encoded as Base64 or as hex digits). The registry is a mess in this respect. [...] Looks interesting. It should be easily possible to get libguestfs to write this format for disk images. There is already a (trivial) demo program I wrote along those lines: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blob;f=examples/to-xml.c;hb=HEAD - - - If you have changes for libguestfs or hivex, please submit them to this mailing list as for any open source project: http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/how-to-supply-code-to-open-source-projects/ Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora