- Title
- AFES: An advanced forensic evidence system
- Creator
- Black, Paul; Gondal, Iqbal; Brooks, Richard; Yu, Lu
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- Text; Conference proceedings
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/188884
- Identifier
- vital:17329
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW52865.2021.00034
- Identifier
- ISBN:978-1-6654-4488-0
- Abstract
- News media often contain reports that raise doubt related to policing operations. We examine the question of how to improve policing integrity during the execution of search warrants and provide an outline for law enforcement search warrants and digital forensic analysis procedures. Existing techniques for improving the integrity of search warrants are reviewed, limitations are noted, and we propose an Advanced Forensic Evidence System (AFES) to address these limitations.AFES provides an immutable record and biometric authentication of the officers present during the execution of a search warrant, time and location, video recording, seizure record, contemporaneous notes, and photographs. AFES records digital evidence items, imaging details, evidence hashes, provides an access control system, and an immutable record of access to all stored items. AFES uses a permissioned distributed ledger prototype, called Scrybe, developed under NSF aegis, to ensure evidence seizure integrity. Scrybe is run as multiple blockchain instances at law enforcement, prosecution, judicial, and defence organisations to ensure that an immutable record is maintained.
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Relation
- 2021 IEEE 25th International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW), Gold Coast, Australia, 25-29th October, 2021 p. 67-74
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright IEEE
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- Blockchains; Digital forensics; Distributed ledger; Evidence seizure; Forensics; Law enforcement; Media; Permission; Prototypes; Search warrant
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