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Decoding Encrypted Documents in Cross-Border e-Discovery

Organizations should develop a strategy to determine whether encryption will be an issue as early as possible in a case. It is also important at the outset to develop a process for handling these very complicated document sets when time is of the essence and when local privacy laws must be considered.

17 minute read January 31, 2014 at 11:00 PM
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Robert Wickstrom
Decoding Encrypted Documents in Cross-Border e-Discovery

On the battlefields of ancient Rome, Julius Caesar used a cipher that changed the order of the letters of the alphabet to secure messages he sent to his infantry leaders.

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