BitTorrent Sync: First impressions and digital forensic implications

Digital Investigation

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2014, Pages

  Farina, Jason ^a   Scanlon, Mark ^a   Kechadi, M Tahar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

BitTorrent; Digital forensics; Peer to Peer; Privacy; Sync; Synchronisation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CRIME; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DATA PRIVACY; DIGITAL STORAGE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC CRIME COUNTERMEASURES; SECURITY OF DATA; SYNCHRONIZATION;

BIT TORRENTS; CLIENT APPLICATIONS; DIGITAL INVESTIGATION; FIRST IMPRESSIONS; PEER TO PEER; SECURITY AGENCIES; SHARING INFORMATION; SYNC;

DIGITAL FORENSICS;

EID: 84899507710     PISSN: 17422876     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diin.2014.03.010     Document Type: Article

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