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Should We Chat, Too? Security Analysis of WeChat's Mmtls Encryption Protocol

This report performs the first public analysis of MMTLS, the main network protocol used by WeChat, an app with over one billion users. The report finds that MMTLS is a modified version of TLS, however some of the modifications have introduced cryptographic weaknesses.
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Oct 16, 2024Should We Chat, Too? Security Analysis of WeChat's Mmtls Encryption Protocol by lladnar15791

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