Computer forensic investigations usually follow the standard digital forensic process (acquisition, analysis and reporting).[4] Investigations are performed on static data (i.e. acquired images) rather than “live” systems. This is a change from early forensic practices which, due to a lack of specialist tools, saw investigations commonly carried out...

Computer forensics (sometimes known as computer forensic science[1]) is a branch of digital forensic science pertaining to legal evidence found in computers and digital storage media. The goal of computer forensics is to examine digital media in a forensically sound manner with the aim of identifying, preserving, recovering, analyzing and presenting facts and...

Cryptanalysis (from the Greek kryptós, “hidden”, and analýein, “to loosen” or “to untie”) is the study of methods for obtaining the meaning of encrypted information, without access to the secret information that is normally required to do so. Typically, this involves knowing how the system works and finding a secret key. In...