Onwuzurike, L;
Cristofaro, ED;
(2016)
Experimental Analysis of Popular Smartphone Apps Offering Anonymity, Ephemerality, and End-to-End Encryption.
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Abstract
As social networking takes to the mobile world, smartphone apps provide users with ever-changing ways to interact with each other. Over the past couple of years, an increasing number of apps have entered the market offering end-to-end encryption, self-destructing messages, or some degree of anonymity. However, little work thus far has examined the properties they offer. To this end, this paper presents a taxonomy of 18 of these apps: we first look at the features they promise in their appeal to broaden their reach and focus on 8 of the more popular ones. We present a technical evaluation, based on static and dynamic analysis, and identify a number of gaps between the claims and reality of their promises.
| Type: | Working / discussion paper |
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| Title: | Experimental Analysis of Popular Smartphone Apps Offering Anonymity, Ephemerality, and End-to-End Encryption |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.04083 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | A preliminary version of this paper appears in the Proceedings of the 2016 NDSS Workshop on Understanding and Enhancing Online Privacy (UEOP). This is the full version. |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1508470 |
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