IOS dev

Watch a story behind implementing end-to-end encryption for Bear application. Anastasiia explained the security engineering flow: protocol design, selecting cryptographic library, cryptocoding techniques, building defence-in-depth and preparing for incidents. Learn how to build an encryption engine for the app with 6M users.

Apple made many announcements on WWDC 2019 about cryptography, cybersecurity and privacy. Anastasiia highlighted important changes for developers – including new CryptoKit framework, data privacy regulations, new app permissions.

A workshop for iOS developers that illustrates typical mistakes they do trying to implement security into their apps. Anastasiia showed an actionable to-do list of things developers might want to improve in their apps, and gave a set of key management techniques for mobile apps.

A workshop for iOS developers that illustrates how to implement end-to-end encryption of Firebase notes application. Zero knowledge algorithms and protocols ensure that no keys, passwords, files, or any other sensitive material ever gets transferred in an unencrypted or reversible form. Workshop code contains two encryption schemes and set of general recommendations of improving security of any iOS application.

A “tips and tricks” talk for mobile developers. Even when developers create apps with security in mind, (at least try to) protect user secrets, and don’t reveal unencrypted data, attackers can still find ways to bypass these security measures by exploiting architectural weaknesses and non-obvious, yet very simple vulnerabilities. The talk is about all the tiny bits and pieces that are necessary for making your app secure against simple attacks way before focusing on the hard things (like cryptography).

The talk focused on real-world problems that ZKA counters, typical cryptographic designs and progress in different spheres of ZKA. The talk also explained the practical approaches useful for mobile developers (implementing data sharing and user collaboration on data in a cloud in a way that makes a mobile app provably secure).

Trust is built around various trust tokens: keys, passwords, secrets, biometric properties, things you have and things you know. Key management is complicated when done the right way.