Curtin Teaches Students Real-World Application of Forensic
Computing and Cryptography On November 16, Interhack founder
Matt Curtin goes to Edison Community College in Piqua, Ohio, to
conduct three sessions with students on topics dealing with
forensic computing and cryptography. Sometimes known as digital
forensics, forensic computing is the process of analyzing data
to answer specific questions for legal proceedings. In some
cases, these lines of inquiry can be used to establish facts, to
reconstruct information that might otherwise have been
destroyed, or to offer expert opinion to the court about how to
interpret certain technical facts. Matt will introduce students
to an investigation conducted under his direction that
identified how one company had critical information about its
business stolen by an employee who was leaving the company to go
to work for a competitor. Cryptography is the practice of
converting information in human readable form, called
"cleartext," into unreadable coded format, called "