Patent ID: 6948066

Claim:
A system for providing a provable chain of evidence for an evidence collection, comprising: a security core which provides security functions; one or more components; means for operating the security core; means for connecting the components to the security core, such that the security core can vouch for authenticity of each connected component; means for recording one or more data streams which comprise the evidence collection, each of the data streams being created by selected ones of the connected components; and means for securely providing, for the evidence collection by the security core, an identification of each of the selected ones which create the recorded data streams, wherein the means for securely providing further comprises means for digitally notarizing, by the security core, the recorded data streams which comprise the evidence collection and wherein the means for digitally notarizing further comprises: means for computing, by the security core, a hash value over each of the recorded data streams; means for combining each hash value with a unique identifier of the selected one which created the recorded data stream for which the hash value was computed, thereby creating a combination data block; means for hashing the combination data block; means for digitally signing the hashed combination data block with a private cryptographic key of the security core, wherein the private cryptographic key has a public cryptographic key cryptographically associated therewith; and means for providing the digitally signed hashed combination data block, along with the combination data block, as the digital notarization for the recorded data streams which comprise the evidence collection, wherein the digital notarization cryptographically seals contents of the evidence collection and identities of the selected ones.