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I've looking into this issue for the last 2 days: The APK we all looked into is IronChat-3.40-release.apk [1], after decompiling I think it is a copy/fork of Co
by bwblabs 8y ago
I've looking into this issue for the last 2 days:
The APK we all looked into is IronChat-3.40-release.apk [1], after decompiling I think it is a copy/fork of Conversations version 1.14.6 with a few more commits until October 13th 2016 [2] with Secret Space Encryptor version 1.7.2c [3].
About unencrypted support: "supportUnencrypted() { return false; }" is in the config, so probably not [4].
There is a theory (I kind of started [5]) that it might be MitM because of bad UX. This is because they used OTR without TOFU which was only added in Conversations 1.15, after the fork [6].
[1] https://ironphonestore.com/IronChat-3.40-release.apk https://ironphonestore.com/IronChat-3.40-release.apk
[2] https://github.com/siacs/Conversations/tree/6371d2b7a9a2b5d7c14c998f63d7e2de6a1467d9 https://github.com/siacs/Conversations/tree/6371d2b7a9a2b5d7...
[3] https://paranoiaworks.mobi/sse/ https://paranoiaworks.mobi/sse/
[4] https://twitter.com/BWBroersma/status/1060136620383453195 https://twitter.com/BWBroersma/status/1060136620383453195
[5] https://twitter.com/BWBroersma/status/1059851925234036739 https://twitter.com/BWBroersma/status/1059851925234036739 / https://twitter.com/Schellevis/status/1059852605801852929 https://twitter.com/Schellevis/status/1059852605801852929 (= the author of the article quoted by ars: https://nos.nl/l/2258309 https://nos.nl/l/2258309 )
[6] https://twitter.com/BWBroersma/status/1060278116315262976 https://twitter.com/BWBroersma/status/1060278116315262976