Crate forensicnomicon_core 

forensicnomicon-core

Stable engine layer of the ForensicNomicon. Houses the slow-moving pieces that downstream analyzers and readers depend on, kept apart from the fast-moving detection knowledge (the ~6.5k artifact descriptors) in the umbrella forensicnomicon crate:

• report — the normalized cross-scheme DFIR finding vocabulary (Finding/Severity/Observation) that every *-forensic analyzer emits.
• catalog — the descriptor types, the catalog::ForensicCatalog lookup engine and its query methods, container/record parsing profiles, and the in-core decoders. It carries no artifact data; the umbrella crate wires the assembled dataset into a global CATALOG via ForensicCatalog::new.
• evidence::EvidenceStrength and volatility::VolatilityClass — the rating types stored on each descriptor (the catalog-querying helpers live in the umbrella crate, where the global catalog is wired).
• Structural format constants readers depend on: decmpfs, filesystems, partition_schemes, partition_types.

These carry no dependency on the assembled detection catalog, so a knowledge change never forces a republish of crates that only need this engine. The umbrella forensicnomicon crate re-exports everything here, so existing imports such as forensicnomicon::report::Finding or forensicnomicon::catalog::CATALOG continue to resolve unchanged.

Re-exports

pub use file_id::FileId;

Modules

catalog

Forensic artifact catalog — engine and types.

chromium_indexeddb

Chromium IndexedDB LevelDB key-coding scheme constants.

chromium_local_storage

Chromium Local Storage (DOM Storage on LevelDB) key-schema constants.

chromium_simple_cache

Chromium Simple Cache on-disk format constants.

decmpfs

HFS+/APFS transparent-compression (decmpfs) on-disk format constants.

evidence

Evidence strength / confidence model for forensic artifacts.

file_id

Filesystem-object identity — the stable name each filesystem gives one node.

filesystems

Filesystem superblock / boot-sector magic signatures.

messenger_desktop

Desktop instant-messenger artifact specs — Discord, Signal, Wire, WhatsApp.

partition_schemes

Disk partitioning-scheme detection from on-disk magic numbers.

partition_types

MBR partition type codes (the 1-byte type field in an MBR partition entry).

report

Normalized cross-scheme forensic report vocabulary — the superset model.

usb_vendors

Common USB vendor IDs → vendor name.

v8_serialization

V8 / Blink structured-clone serialization tag tables.

volatility

Artifact volatility model — RFC 3227 Order of Volatility encoded as data.

volume_encryption

Volume full-disk-encryption detection from a volume boot record.

volume_serial

Volume serial-number extraction from a volume boot record.