• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.583-592
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• 2020

With the popularization of smartphones, Social Networking Service (SNS) has become the means of communication for modern people. Due to the nature of the means of communication, SNS generates a variety of archive and preservation evidence. Therefore, it is a major analysis target in terms of digital forensic investigation. An application that provides SNS stores data in a central server or database in a smartphone inside for user convenience. Some applications provide encryption for privacy, which can be anti-forensic in terms of digital forensic investigation. Therefore, the study of the encryption method should be continuously preceded. In this paper, we analyzed two applications that provide SQLite-based database encryption through SQLCipher module. Each database was decrypted and key data was identified.