Java's SSLSocket: How Bad APIs Compromise Security

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Internet security is hard. TLS is almost impossible. Implementing TLS correctly in Java is "Nightmare!". This talk will show how a badly designed security API introduced over 15 years ago, combined with misleading documentation and developers unaware of security challenges, causes modern smartphone applications to be left exposed to Man-in-the-Middle attacks.