Final Workshop with Digital Forensic and Legal Experts on the Formal Language for the Evidence Exchange Representation

This Deliverable, D3.3 "Final workshop with digital forensic and legal experts on the formal language for the evidence exchange representation" (hereinafter 'Deliverable D3.3') reports on the Final workshop, held in The Hague on 26-27 March 2019. The organization of the workshop is part of the activities under Task 3.1 "Refining standard EVIDENCE proposal for the representation of the evidence data in the Exchange process", within Work Package 3 "Matching EVIDENCE into e-CODEX and linking to other EU Member States". The main goal of this task is to integrate the formal language UCO/CASE for the purposes of representing and supporting the Electronic Evidence Exchange process in an electronic evidence platform based on e-CODEX architecture. The workshop aimed at validating the Evidence Exchange Standard Package (EESP) application for creating the Evidence Package and facilitating its exchange through the Reference Implementation and e-Codex. The EESP application supports the UCO/CASE language, being the standard for the representation of the Evidence Package meta data. During the meeting digital forensic and legal experts discussed on a wider range of topics, addressed in six Panels' slots: o Functionalities and GUI of the EESP application (Competent Authorities and Forensic Labs perspectives); o EESP and Reference Implementation interactions: Messages exchange, Link, Automatisms, Evidence Package Encryption and Manifest file; o Forensic tools software companies perspective on CASE language (the acceptance of CASE by tool providers and their view the responsibility for developing and maintaining the standard); o Legal issues on Data Protection and other concerns related to the Evidence Package data retention; o How to deal with the Exchange of large file of Evidence issue; o Other platforms in use for the Evidence Exchange: issues and solutions. This Panel is mostly composed of LEAs representatives and the Consortium would like to express a special thanks to them, because they have accepted to share some knowledge with our projects, because we fully understand that the matter entails confidentiality/discretion.