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CCWallet: Your Bitcoin Wallet.

Latest release: 1.3.1 ( 29th July 2020 ) 🔍 Last analysed 2nd November 2022 . Failed to build from source provided! Not updated in a long time
4.2 ★★★★★
555 ratings
10 thousand
26th June 2019

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The Analysis 

Also based on Emauel’s Analysis:

In the description we read:

We support Bitcoin, …

and

The code of our crypto wallet is open-source and it is available on GitHub.

but no claim about being self-custodial. Only:

CCWallet is a cryptocurrency wallet mobile app with the opportunity of sending, receiving funds, tracking transactions, as well as exporting & importing private keys.

which implies it is self-custodial.

Their website uses an ssl certificate that expired on 12/25/2020. That doesn’t look like a well maintained wallet.

Let’s see how far we get with building the app from the public source code:


$ git clone https://github.com/coincasso/ccwallet
$ cd ccwallet/
$ git log --oneline 
c1b4be7 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD) +
c7cc54a Name changes
7c384e4 La commit
210b34a bugfixes
9443216 duzo zmianek
39e7af9 Merge branch 'dev1' of https://bitbucket.org/kacpertcn/coincasso-wallet into HEAD
f1586c0 -
9e08f77 face touch id p1
fc58f85 main store bugfixes
82e3500 decimals in erc20
c45af3e TouchID
e0e7ca3 erc20 value fix
13fc465 abifix
ce9857f abi fix
e33bdb4 few fixes
cb64865 erc20 tokens, bugfixes
a8e7a09 ccx token
293ba8d url to coincasso.com in settings
e5e6052 few visual edits
66dae07 no message
e5a1297 с1
cb8b083 initial

There is a total of 22 commits, all from May and June of 2019. None of them is tagged. As the latest update of the wallet according to Google is 2020-07-29, we have to consider the possibility that the app went closed source after an initial open source release.

Now the complete install instructions:

CCWallet

Installation

  sudo npm i rn-nodeify -g
  npm install
  cd ios
  pod install
  cd ../
  react-native run-ios
  react-native run-android

do not look like instructions that would produce an installable app package with the final run-android part. In ReactNative, that step should rather read: cd android; gradlew assembleRelease:

$ docker run -it --volume $PWD:/mnt --workdir /mnt --rm beevelop/cordova bash
root@8fc76c4dbdd3:/mnt# npm i rn-nodeify -g
root@8fc76c4dbdd3:/mnt# npm install
root@8fc76c4dbdd3:/mnt# yes | /opt/android/tools/bin/sdkmanager "build-tools;27.0.3"
root@8fc76c4dbdd3:/mnt# cd android
root@8fc76c4dbdd3:/mnt/android# ./gradlew assembleRelease
> Task :app:processReleaseManifest FAILED
/mnt/android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml Error:
        uses-sdk:minSdkVersion 16 cannot be smaller than version 19 declared in library [:react-native-fs] /mnt/node_modules/react-native-fs/android/build/intermediates/manifests/full/release/AndroidManifest.xml as the library might be using APIs not available in 16
        Suggestion: use a compatible library with a minSdk of at most 16,
                or increase this project's minSdk version to at least 19,
                or use tools:overrideLibrary="com.rnfs" to force usage (may lead to runtime failures)

See http://g.co/androidstudio/manifest-merger for more information about the manifest merger.



FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:processReleaseManifest'.
> Manifest merger failed : uses-sdk:minSdkVersion 16 cannot be smaller than version 19 declared in library [:react-native-fs] /mnt/node_modules/react-native-fs/android/build/intermediates/manifests/full/release/AndroidManifest.xml as the library might be using APIs not available in 16
        Suggestion: use a compatible library with a minSdk of at most 16,
                or increase this project's minSdk version to at least 19,
                or use tools:overrideLibrary="com.rnfs" to force usage (may lead to runtime failures)

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.

* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 1m 43s
139 actionable tasks: 139 executed

so the build failed with the error:

> Manifest merger failed : uses-sdk:minSdkVersion 16 cannot be smaller than version 19 declared in library [:react-native-fs] /mnt/node_modules/react-native-fs/android/build/intermediates/manifests/full/release/AndroidManifest.xml as the library might be using APIs not available in 16

which looks like some react-native-fs library wasn’t pinned to an exact version. Reproducible builds highly depend on versions being pinned better to cryptographic hashes of the dependency than to a version number but looking where that dependency came from:

root@8fc76c4dbdd3:/mnt# grep react-native-fs package.json
    "react-native-fs": "^2.11.15",

the provider would be fine with any version higher than 2.11.15 of that library. This is highly problematic, not only because the build can’t be reproduced as soon as the library gets any update but also because it makes the wallet vulnerable to any such library getting an upgrade with a backdoor which would automatically get compiled into the wallet. Lastly it’s also problematic because the build instructions might change.

In summary, this app is not verifiable.

(lw, em)

Verdict Explained

We encountered a build error while compiling from source code!

As part of our Methodology, we ask:

Build Error!

Can the product be built from the source provided?

If the answer is "no", we mark it as "Failed to build from source provided!".

Published code doesn’t help much if the app fails to compile.

We try to compile the published source code using the published build instructions into a binary. If that fails, we might try to work around issues but if we consistently fail to build the app, we give it this verdict and open an issue in the issue tracker of the provider to hopefully verify their app later.

But we also ask:

Obsolete!

Was the product updated during the last two years?

If the answer is "no", we mark it as "Not updated in a long time".

Bitcoin wallets are complex products and Bitcoin is a new, advancing technolgy. Projects that don’t get updated in a long time are probably not well maintained. It is questionable if the provider even has staff at hands that is familiar with the product, should issues arise.

This verdict may not get applied if the provider is active and expresses good reasons for not updating the product.