Maintaining Evidence Integrity

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Preserving integrity is non-negotiable. This lecture shows how to use cryptographic hashing, secure storage, and logging to validate that an image is an exact replica of the original.

Key topics:

  • MD5, SHA1, SHA256 hash functions

  • Chain of custody and hash logs

  • Common evidence tampering scenarios

  • Verifying image consistency after transfer