Don’t Interrupt Me While I Type: Inferring Text Entered Through Gesture Typing on Android Keyboards

Don’t Interrupt Me While I Type: Inferring Text Entered Through Gesture Typing on Android Keyboards

We present a new side-channel attack against soft keyboards that support gesture typing on Android smartphones. An application without any special permissions can observe the number and timing of the screen hardware interrupts and system-wide software interrupts generated during user input, and anal...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Simon Laurent, Xu Wenduan, Anderson Ross
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2016-07-01
Series:Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Subjects:
mobile
smartphone
android
side channel
interrupt
typing
gesture
gesture typing
swiftkey
google keyboard
keyboard
procfs
virtual file system
virtual file
artifical neural network
neural network
reccurent neural network
rnn
machine learning
ml
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/popets-2016-0020

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https://doi.org/10.1515/popets-2016-0020

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