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Inside Proton’s Vault: Uncovering Android Proton Drive Artifacts

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Proton Drive is Proton’s answer to secure, privacy-first cloud storage, and its Android app  extends that same protection to mobile users. Proton is well known for its encrypted ecosystem: Proton Mail delivers end-to-end encrypted email, while Proton VPN provides anonymous, protected internet access. Proton Drive fits seamlessly into this suite of privacy-focused services, enabling users to upload, sync, and share files with all data being encrypted both in transit and at rest, ensuring that sensitive information remains under the user’s control. When approaching Proton Drive from a forensic perspective, just like other cloud storage apps, the first questions are often the simplest: what is the user account information, and what data is actually being stored?  so these questions are what I am going to focus on. Of course, with Proton’s well-advertised model of end-to-end encryption and data at rest encryption , it causes some challenges that are not as common with more mainst...