Title
Evaluation of Cryptography Usage in Android Applications.
Abstract
Mobile application developers are using cryptography in their products to protect sensitive data like passwords, short messages, documents etc. In this paper, we study whether cryptography and related techniques are employed in a proper way, in order to protect these private data. To this end, we downloaded 49 Android applications from the Google Play marketplace and performed static and dynamic analysis in an attempt to detect possible cryptographic misuses. The results showed that 87.8% of the applications present some kind of misuse, while for the rest of them no cryptography usage was detected during the analysis. Finally, we suggest countermeasures, mainly intended for developers, to alleviate the issues identified by the analysis.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.4108/eai.3-12-2015.2262471
ICST Trans. Security Safety
DocType
Volume
Issue
Conference
3
9
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.54
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexia Chatzikonstantinou160.54
Christoforos Ntantogian28613.03
Georgios Karopoulos3186.39
Christos Xenakis422128.00