In this report, we analyze the Windows, Android, and iOS versions of Tencent’s Sogou Input Method, the most popular Chinese-language input method in China. Our analysis found serious vulnerabilities in the app’s custom encryption system and how it encrypts sensitive data. These vulnerabilities could allow a network eavesdropper to decrypt sensitive communications sent by the app, including revealing all keystrokes being typed by the user. Following our disclosure of these vulnerabilities, Sogou released updated versions of the app that identified all of the issues we disclosed.
Vulnerabilities in Sogou Keyboard encryption expose keypresses to network eavesdropping.
That looks nice. I’ll check it out if I have some time later; though my written Chinese is fairly limited. So far the Windows keyboard layout did just fine.
Oh, the one I linked to was actually https://rime.im/ ported to Android. If you want to use it on Windows, please use this link instead. By the way, the required setup on Android is quite a hassle compared to the Windows, macOS, or Linux version.
Neither of which supports Chinese, so that’s useless for any actual users of Sogou.
I use https://github.com/osfans/trime to type Chinese.
That looks nice. I’ll check it out if I have some time later; though my written Chinese is fairly limited. So far the Windows keyboard layout did just fine.
Oh, the one I linked to was actually https://rime.im/ ported to Android. If you want to use it on Windows, please use this link instead. By the way, the required setup on Android is quite a hassle compared to the Windows, macOS, or Linux version.
To repeat a comment I made a bit back, I’m a little disappointed even by the state of English-language Android FOSS onscreen keyboards.