  Providing the ability to any law enforcement officer to remotely transfer an
image from any suspect computer directly to a forensic laboratory for analysis,
can only help to greatly reduce the time wasted by forensic investigators in
conducting on-site collection of computer equipment. RAFT (Remote Acquisition
Forensic Tool) is a system designed to facilitate forensic investigators by
remotely gathering digital evidence. This is achieved through the
implementation of a secure, verifiable client/server imaging architecture. The
RAFT system is designed to be relatively easy to use, requiring minimal
technical knowledge on behalf of the user. One of the key focuses of RAFT is to
ensure that the evidence it gathers remotely is court admissible. This is
achieved by ensuring that the image taken using RAFT is verified to be
identical to the original evidence on a suspect computer.
