Onwuzurike, L;
De Cristofaro, E;
(2016)
Experimental Analysis of Popular Smartphone Apps Offering Anonymity, Ephemerality, and End-to-End Encryption.
In: Gummadi, Krishna and Hoffmann, Jörg and Maffei, Matteo, (eds.)
Proceedings of the 1st NDSS Workshop on Understanding and Enhancing Online Privacy (UEOP 2016).
UEOP: California, USA.
(In press).
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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: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Experimental Analysis of Popular Smartphone Apps Offering Anonymity, Ephemerality, and End-to-End Encryption |
| Event: | 1st NDSS Workshop on Understanding and Enhancing Online Privacy (UEOP 2016) |
| Location: | San Diego, CA, USA |
| Dates: | 21 February 2016 - 21 February 2016 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10061786 |
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