WireWatch
Measuring the Security of Proprietary Network Encryption in the Global Android Ecosystem
The Citizen Lab’s Mona Wang, Jeffrey Knockel, and Zoë Reichert, in collaboration with Princeton researchers Prateek Mittal and Jonathan Mayer, co-authored a new paper on the network security of Android apps. Their research found that a large portion of popular Chinese apps use broken proprietary network protocols instead of TLS.
The paper, titled “WireWatch: Measuring the security of proprietary network encryption in the global Android ecosystem,” will be presented by Wang at the 2025 IEEE Symposium on May 14, 2025. Register here.
