Corona-Warn-App: Tracing the Start of the Official COVID-19 Exposure Notification App for Germany

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07370v1
• Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2020 22:00:43 GMT
• Title: Corona-Warn-App: Tracing the Start of the Official COVID-19 Exposure Notification App for Germany
• Authors: Jens Helge Reelfs and Oliver Hohlfeld and Ingmar Poese
• Abstract summary: On June 16, 2020, Germany launched an open-source smartphone contact tracing app ("Corona-Warn-App") to help tracing SARS-CoV-2 infection chains. We characterize the early adoption of the app using Netflow traces captured directly at its hosting infrastructure. We show that the app generated traffic from allover Germany---already on the first day.
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• Abstract: On June 16, 2020, Germany launched an open-source smartphone contact tracing app ("Corona-Warn-App") to help tracing SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus) infection chains. It uses a decentralized, privacy-preserving design based on the Exposure Notification APIs in which a centralized server is only used to distribute a list of keys of SARS-CoV-2 infected users that is fetched by the app once per day. Its success, however, depends on its adoption. In this poster, we characterize the early adoption of the app using Netflow traces captured directly at its hosting infrastructure. We show that the app generated traffic from allover Germany---already on the first day. We further observe that local COVID-19 outbreaks do not result in noticeable traffic increases.

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