Encryption in the Spotlight due to Vulnerable Android Apps

Last week, Ars Technica’s Dan Goodin published a story detailing how downloaded Android applications have the potential to expose the sensitive personal data of more than 185 million users. Vulnerabilities due to inadequate or incorrect use of SSL/TLS protocol libraries expose everything from online banking and social networking credentials to e-mail and instant-messaging contents. A group of computer scientists identified 41 applications in Google's Play Market that could leak data from an Android phone connected to webservers for banks and other online services.

In addition to the research paper that sparked the article, there was another body of research out of Stanford University and the University of Texas, which