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Tamper artefact

Definition

A signal in a media file that indicates manipulation: a discontinuity in compression parameters, an inconsistency in noise profile, a gap in Electric Network Frequency data, or an anomaly in metadata timestamps. These artefacts are the evidence authentication analysis seeks. Enhancement processing can eliminate them.

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Authentication forensics
The examination of a media file to determine whether it is genuine: whether it was created by the claimed device, at the...
Enhancement forensics
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Forensic working copy
A verified duplicate of the original file, created by hashing the original and confirming hash match, on which processing is performed. The...
Provenance
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Scope statement
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