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DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080123
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SSL based Webmail Forensic Engine

Author 1: Manesh T
Author 2: Abdalla A Alameen
Author 3: Mohemmed Sha M
Author 4: Mohamed Mustaq Ahmed A
Author 5: Mohamed Yacoab M.Y.
Author 6: Bhadran V K
Author 7: Abraham Varghese

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 8 Issue 1, 2017.

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Abstract: In this era of information technology, email applications are the foremost and extensively used electronic communication technology. Emails are profusely used to exchange data and information using several frontend applications from various service providers by its users. Currently most of the email clients and service providers now moved to secured data communications using SSL or TLS security for their data exchanged. Cyber criminals and terrorists have started by means of this mode for exchanging their malicious information in their transactions. Forensic experts have to face greater difficulty and multiple challenges in tracing crucial forensic information from network packets as the communication is secured. These challenges might affect the digital forensic experts in procuring substantial evidences against such criminals from their working environments. This research work revels working background of SSL based webmail forensic engine, which decrypt respective communication or network session and also reconstruct the actual message contents of webmail applications. This digital forensic engine is compatible to work with in proxy servers and other computing environments and enables forensic reconstruction followed by analysis of webmail clients. Proposed forensic engine employs is a high-speed packet capturing hardware module, a sophisticated packet reformation algorithm; restores email header and messages from encrypted stream of SMTP and POP3 network sessions. Proposed forensic engine also support cyber investigation team with generated forensic report and prosecution of culprits by judiciary system of the specific country.

Keywords: Forensics; Network Sessions; Packet Drop; Secure Data Aggregation; Sensor Nodes

Manesh T, Abdalla A Alameen, Mohemmed Sha M, Mohamed Mustaq Ahmed A, Mohamed Yacoab M.Y., Bhadran V K and Abraham Varghese, “SSL based Webmail Forensic Engine” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 8(1), 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080123

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title = {SSL based Webmail Forensic Engine},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080123},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080123},
year = {2017},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {8},
number = {1},
author = {Manesh T and Abdalla A Alameen and Mohemmed Sha M and Mohamed Mustaq Ahmed A and Mohamed Yacoab M.Y. and Bhadran V K and Abraham Varghese}
}



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