An app named "Authentication of Forensic Evidence with
Blockchain (AFEB)" was first launched on a symposium
hosted by the app's developer, the Taiwan Investigation Bureau,
Ministry of Justice (IBMOJ) on April 24, 2019.
According to the IBMOJ's press release, before the launch of
the said app, forensic reports in Taiwan were prepared in hard
copy. The electronic copy was for reference only and was formed
after the hard-copy report was physically signed by a forensic
examiner and a laboratory director. With the advent of the digital
age, forensics becomes heavily relied on digital evidence which
amplifies hard-copy reports' shortcomings, such as the
prolonged delivery timeframe, the risk of damage, and most of all,
the difficulty in authenticating the evidence. For authentication
purposes, examiners were often summoned to give testimony at court
hearings on how they performed the examination and prepared the
reports, and they were occasionally requested to repeat
