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Signatures

External signatures File extension: xml
Internal signatures
Name DROID File Collection File
Description <FileCollection>…<DROIDVersion> elements. {0-50} < F I l e C o l l e c t I o n {0-100} < D R O I D V e r s I o n > {1-10} < / D R O I D V e r s I o n > - NB. The signature byte sequence is currently massaged to steer around the known PRONOM bug in the are of the left fragment matching when the longest fragment is not nearest BOF. The last fragment in the BOF byte sequence has been shortened by 2 bytes to ensure that the first fragment is the longest. This abbreviation does not reduce the overall signature strength too much and so will hopefully not result in any false positive identification. When the PRONOM bug has been fixed, "0D0A" should be appended to the BOF byte sequence and this note reduced.
Byte sequences
Position type Absolute from BOF
Offset 0
Byte order  
Value {0-50}3C46696C65436F6C6C656374696F6E20{0-100}3C44524F494456657273696F6E3E{1-10}3C2F44524F494456657273696F6E3E
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