The Maintenance of Accuracy and Reliability of Electronic Evidence through Biometric and Encryption

Abstract

The reliability of electronic evidence means the authenticity of electronic data in court and playing a role in the judgments. In order to have the same demonstrative function as traditional evidence, electronic evidence must meet two main requirements: authentication, originality and nonrepudiation. It is essential to keep data suitably in the seized phase to achieve these requirements. The secure strategies for protection of the data have been mentioned in clause (T), article 2 of the Electronic Commercial Act and also article 40 of Cybercrimes Act, of which the most important is biometric and encryption. The biometric technology receives and processes the individuals’ data and allows to achieve the data only to whom his/her data have been processed; hence, no one else can access the data. Also in encryption, the data are protected by shuffling in a way that it can switch such statement with only one confidential key and it remains illegible to a person who does not access these data. In this way, the data are protected from alternation and falsification and can be cited in such a secure way.

Keywords

• electronic evidence
• reliability of electronic evidences
• biometric
• encryption