Researchers at Cusat granted patent for advanced digital evidence fingerprinting system

Researchers astatine Cochin University of Science and Technology (Cusat) person been granted a patent for an innovative invention designed to heighten the reliability and authenticity of integer grounds utilized successful transgression investigations and integer forensic analysis.

Titled ‘System and Method for Generating Digital Fingerprint of a Digital Evidence’, the patent has been awarded to Vijith T.K. Thekke Koodathil, Senior Research Fellow (UGC-SRF), Cyber Intelligence Research Laboratory, Department of Computer Applications; M.B. Santosh Kumar, Professor and head, Department of Information Technology, School of Engineering; K.V. Pramod, Emeritus Professor, Department of Computer Applications; and Sukrith B., Research Scholar, Cyber Intelligence Research Laboratory, Department of Computer Applications, according to a release.

The strategy reportedly strengthens accepted integer grounds hashing techniques by integrating aggregate information parameters. It generates a unsocial integer fingerprint utilizing a operation of cryptographic hash values, hardware-based instrumentality identifiers, and geo-location information that records the nonstop determination of the fingerprinting process. Built-in write-block exertion ensures that the archetypal integer grounds remains unaltered during processing. The strategy tin beryllium operated by instrumentality enforcement officials and tract investigators straight astatine transgression scenes without requiring precocious method expertise, it said.