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Forensic Investigation of Email Artefacts by Using Various Tools

Author(s):

Vibhuti Narayan Singh , Bundelkhand University Jhansi; Shalini, Bundelkhand University Jhansi

Keywords:

Email, IP address, Message ID, Digital Medium, Email artefacts

Abstract

Email stands for Electronic mail used for sharing and communicating the digital data from a sender to one or more recipient. Communication through Email is currently gain popularity over the internet. Email store many information such as message and attachments which was communicated between author and recipient, IP address of author’s internet provider, Message ID etc. Analysis of these email artefacts under forensically sound environment provides valuable evidence such as who is the real sender of the email, which type of data is shared between the author and recipient, from where email was sent, date and time of email was sent etc. to forensic investigator. In present study a forensic system is proposed for analysis and retrieval of these email artefacts present in digital medium.

Other Details

Paper ID: IJSRDV2I12239
Published in: Volume : 2, Issue : 12
Publication Date: 01/03/2015
Page(s): 447-452

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