CS 521 Innovations Design Academy Computer Science Essay

Forensics Specialists must search at a bit level across a wide range of areas inside a computer. This includes email, temporary files, swap files, slack and free space, web-browser cache, history, bookmarks. What if the hard-drive or a portion of the drive is encrypted? Should investigator attempt to decode encrypted files? Please support your statement and explain if you can present it in the court of law.