Open AccessRecovering Evidentiary E-mail for Non-Repudiation Forensics
Author(s) -
Lokendra Kumar Tiwari,
Saurabh Mishra,
Shefalika Ghosh Samaddar
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of innovative technology and exploring engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2278-3075
DOI - 10.35940/ijitee.k1085.09811s219
Subject(s) - digital evidence , computer science , communication source , digital forensics , computer forensics , digital content , computer security , world wide web , process (computing) , internet privacy , telecommunications , operating system
Computer Forensic, the upcoming branch of forensic science where acquiring, preserving, retrieving and presenting content processed electronically and stored digitally, is used for legal evidence in computer related crimes or any other unethical practice involving manipulation of digital content. Such digital content can take many forms which are manifested by different file formats and digital artifacts”. This paper concentrates on acquisition of deleted e-mail from mailbox of web servers satisfying two tier, three tier and n-tier technology. A detailed survey of several possibilities are included for non-repudiation forensic. A case study of a particular file type using suitable forensic tool is cited as a proof of concept towards this claimed inference to provide digital evidence in case of non-repudiation by sender and/or by receiver. This is simply conducted by using Encase a proprietary Digital forensic tools. The whole process is captured in step by step fashion to have a better understanding of the mechanism used. Recovery of files/emails have certain kinds of legal hurdles, the paper have addressed them as well. This paper contributes to the extend the recovered email can used as a ready digital evidence in any court of law.