Trail of Bits

SimpleX Chat

Type

Security review

Client

SimpleX

Date

2022-10

Domain

Crypto

Effort

1 wk

Section

Cryptography Reviews

Trail of Bits's security review of SimpleX (Oct 2022) identified 4 issues: 2 medium, and 2 low.

Findings · 4

  1. 1 X3DH does not apply HKDF to generate secrets Medium
  2. 2 The pad function is incorrect for long messages Low
  3. 3 The unPad function throws exception for short messages Low
  4. 4 Key material resides in unpinned memory and is not cleared after its lifetime Medium

Findings extracted from the published report PDF. See the full report below for details and remediation.

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