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Analysis of Fingerprinting Libraries on Android
In order to recognise a user across different applications, a fingerprint of the used device can be created. Specialised software […]
MPC-based Secure Aggregation in Federated Learning: Overview, Protocols, & Google’s Gboard
As digitalization progresses, it is becoming increasingly attractive to learn from as much data as possible in order to, e.g., […]
Privacy-preserving Identifiers
In federated authentication protocols (e.g., OpenID Connect), users are often assigned unique identifiers to be identified by service providers (SPs). […]
Analysis of the Permission System of Android
The Android permissions system is a key security feature that is used to control the access of applications to certain […]
Security Analysis of new Sideloading Possibilities on iOS 17.4 / iPadOS 18
The Digital Markets Act (DMA) of the European Union forced Apple to relax its position as the gatekeeper of the […]
Analysis of the Android Privacy Sandbox
With the Android Privacy Sandbox, Google is introducing a new technology designed to improve the privacy of Android device users. […]
Evaluation of Secure-Multi-Party-Computation-Frameworks for the Web Browser
Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) is now a practical privacy-preserving cryptographic building block. With the help of MPC, numerous data analyses […]
Potential Covert Channel Through Kernel Samepage Merging on Android
Kernel Samepage Merging (KSM) is a mechanism in the Linux kernel that allows identical pages in memory to be shared […]
Influence of changes to the runtime environment on Android applications
The programming interface of Android offers a variety of features and information sources to create applications. However, these information sources […]