Episode 73: What is the ASCII Table?

The ASCII table defines what typed characters will look like to the computer. See the table, and how it correlates to data.

The SANS 3MinMax series with Kevin Ripa is designed around short, three-minute presentations on a variety of topics from within Digital Forensics, Incident Response, and to a lesser degree, Information Security.

About the author:
An investigator at heart, Kevin Ripa bought his first computer as a tool for writing reports for his private investigation agency. As he worked through typical user issues, the "why" of what was going wrong in his machine kept him up at night. So Kevin turned his investigative skills toward his computer and quickly became fascinated by the world inside of it. Now a 25-year veteran of the digital investigations field, Kevin's enthusiasm has not waned: "IT security and digital forensics still inspire me every day, and I can't wait to wake up in the morning and get to work!"

[Vic-dlwq]

Hey Kevin, when you copy text from an application whether it be a browser or some other app, to a different application, is the original data representation of the text preserved or does it convert the data to that of the application you are copying to? For example if you are copying text from a web page that is represented in UTF but you paste to notepad which uses ASCII by default, does it convert the data?