What is it about?
Mobile Messaging apps are used everyday by billions of people. Although, the cryptographic properties of such applications are well studied, there is not enough work about the software implementation perspective of them.
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Why is it important?
Messaging apps are used very often to communicate sensitive information. Thus, multifaceted analysis of such software is necessary.
Perspectives
Signal seems to have the leanest software approach among the studied apps and ,as a result, has the smallest attack surface.
Ioannis Karyotakis
Athens University of Economics and Business
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This page is a summary of: An Empirical Comparison of Security and Privacy Characteristics of Android Messaging Apps, March 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3748522.3779858.
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