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most citedYou Really Shouldn't Roll Your Own Crypto: An Empirical Study of Vulnerabilities in Cryptographic Libraries

6 citations · 10 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CR2025

KeyDroid: A Large-Scale Analysis of Secure Key Storage in Android Apps

Jenny Blessing, Ross J. Anderson, Alastair R. Beresford

Most contemporary mobile devices offer hardware-backed storage for cryptographic keys, user data, and other sensitive credentials. Such hardware protects credentials from extractio…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

SoK: Web Authentication in the Age of End-to-End Encryption

Jenny Blessing, Daniel Hugenroth, Ross J. Anderson +1

The advent of end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging and backup services has brought new challenges for usable authentication. Compared to regular web services, the nature of E2EE i…

cs.CR2023

When Vision Fails: Text Attacks Against ViT and OCR

Nicholas Boucher, Jenny Blessing, Ilia Shumailov +2

Text-based machine learning models are vulnerable to an emerging class of Unicode-based adversarial examples capable of tricking a model into misreading text with potentially disas…

cs.CY2023

One Protocol to Rule Them All? On Securing Interoperable Messaging

Jenny Blessing, Ross Anderson

European lawmakers have ruled that users on different platforms should be able to exchange messages with each other. Yet messaging interoperability opens up a Pandora's box of secu…

cs.CR2023★ 1 cited

Threat Models over Space and Time: A Case Study of E2EE Messaging Applications

Partha Das Chowdhury, Maria Sameen, Jenny Blessing +5

Threat modelling is foundational to secure systems engineering and should be done in consideration of the context within which systems operate. On the other hand, the continuous ev…

cs.CR2021★ 6 cited

You Really Shouldn't Roll Your Own Crypto: An Empirical Study of Vulnerabilities in Cryptographic Libraries

Jenny Blessing, Michael A. Specter, Daniel J. Weitzner

The security of the Internet rests on a small number of open-source cryptographic libraries: a vulnerability in any one of them threatens to compromise a significant percentage of…

cs.CY2020★ 2 cited

Security Survey and Analysis of Vote-by-Mail Systems

Jenny Blessing, Julian Gomez, McCoy Patiño +1

Voting by mail has been gaining traction for decades in the United States and has emerged as the preferred voting method during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we examine the…