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Android’s Security Framework–Understanding the Security of Mobile Phone Platforms

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The Android Smartphone platform is a product of the Google-led Open Handset Alliance (OHA) designed to be open and customizable [1]. It enforces a permission-based security policy composed of individual policies specified by system and third-party applications.

Circa the mid to late 2000s, improved hardware and cellular network technologies provided the base for affordable and widespread adoption of advanced mobile phones commonly referred to as “smartphones.” Smartphones are often characterized by their ability to run downloaded third-party software, in contrast to the similar “feature-phones,” which do not. The Android smartphone platform was officially released in October 2008. It quickly became popular amongst the developer community for its open source nature and adoption by telecommunications providers worldwide.

The OHA designed Android to be open and customizable (“all applications are created equal”). While Android is based on Linux, the middleware presented to...

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  1. Android Developers, Tools and documentation on how to create Android applications, http://developer.android.com/index.html

  2. Barrera D, Kayacik HG, van Oorschot P, Somayaji A (2010) A methodology for empirical analysis of permission-based security models and its application to android. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

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  3. Enck W, Gilbert P, Chun B-G, Cox LP, Jung J, McDaniel P, Sheth A (2010) TaintDroid: an information-flow tracking system for realtime privacy monitorying on smartphones. In Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 344 IST Building, 16802, University Park, PA, USA

    William Enck

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Henk C. A. van Tilborg

  2. Center for Secure Information Systems, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 22030-4422, USA

    Sushil Jajodia

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Enck, W. (2011). Android’s Security Framework–Understanding the Security of Mobile Phone Platforms. In: van Tilborg, H.C.A., Jajodia, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5906-5_121

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