Abstract

Internet security is hard. TLS is almost impossible. Implementing TLS correctly in Java is »Nightmare!«. This paper will show how a badly designed security API introduced over 15 years ago, combined with misleading documentation and developers unaware of security challenges, causes modern smartphone applications to be left exposed to Man-in-the-Middle attacks. This article appears in the special edition „In Depth Security – Proceedings of the DeepSec Conferences“. Edited by Stefan Schumacher and René Pfeiffer

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