A Framework to Analyze Reliability of Digital Evidences in Computer Systems

Electronic devices can be seen everywhere in our lives along with the popularization and application of computer technology, meanwhile more and more digital traces are found in criminal activities, so we can take these digital evidences to prove case. But digital evidences usually have been questioned in the courts because of their reliability. There is no valid method to prove the reliability of digital evidences. In this paper, we put forward a framework to analyze reliability of digital evidences in computer system, using expert system to access related digital evidences and estimate the consistency among evidences with rules.