SurfRecon Digital Signatures Database

The SurfRecon digital signatures database is the world's largest repository of digital signatures that uniquely identify pornographic content. As of October 2008 the database contained over 200 million unique digital signatures and continues to grow at a rate of nearly 10 million per week. Along with every digital signature in the database is a record of who submitted it and what category it was submitted as: "safe," "sexual," or "child pornography."

The database also contain additional information including the website the image or video came from, convictions that have come from possession of the image or video, notes about what the image contains, as well as detailed information about the images such as what type of camera the image was captured with and what programs were used to edit the image. All this information is viewable through the SurfRecon interface.

By matching a digital signature to a signature wihtin the database, SurfRecon is capable of pre-categorize a high percentage of a computer's detected image content, leaving a smaller number of images that must be manually reviewed. To put it into familiar terms, if looking for pornography on a computer system is like searching for a needle in a haystack, SurfRecon not only makes the haystack smaller, but finds many of the needles for you.

All digital signatures are submitted by certified members of the law-enforcement community, by a member of the SurfRecon staff, or by SurfRecon's WebCrawler, which searches known safe and pornographic websites for content 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.



Topics: database, digital signatures, hash, md5, sha-1, ifid