Wednesday, July 14, 2010

What is Digital finger printing technology?

The criminals keep on doing misdeeds and they think that they are too clever to leave any clue for the investigators, but they are unaware of the strict legal rules and the advancements in the field of science and forensic department. Out of all new technology the digital finger printing technology is really interesting to know and follow. The digital fingerprinting is widely applicable in today’s modern day and age. It is a development of the internet and multimedia techniques. Since the transfer of data via multimedia and internet has increased a lot, so the necessity of securing the data has also become very important.

We know that the data that is send from one user to the other user is surely secured by encrypting it (which the sender does positively before sending) but the security finishes especially at the receiver’s end when decryption of the data is done. Digital fingerprinting is a kind of application which will protect the data from the unauthorized users. Whenever a theft of data takes place, then the digital finger printing is used to find out the thief or culprit. The method is very easy. A hidden ID is fixed into each user’s copy while interchanging of any data. This ID helps the user to catch the thief.

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