[guardian-dev] Storing application secrets in Android's credential storage

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I put it on the PSST list to look into once we start in on that again in
October.

.hc

On 08/15/2012 09:26 AM, Dominik Schürmann wrote:
> No, I don't know of any app that uses this, but there is open source
> sample code available on https://github.com/nelenkov/android-keystore
> 
> Regards
> Dominik
> 
> On 14.08.2012 22:00, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>> Hmm, that's interesting, but it sucks that its not a public API.  Do you
>> know of any apps that are using this?
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> On 08/13/2012 11:11 AM, Dominik Schürmann wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I don't know if it was already discussed, but there seems to be a way to
>>> store any data in Android's credential storage.
>>>
>>> I stumbled upon this interesting blog and the following post:
>>> http://nelenkov.blogspot.com.es/2012/05/storing-application-secrets-in-androids.html
>>>
>>> It is not public API but seems to be relatively stable as it is
>>> supported from 1.6 to 4.0. Thus it could be an option to store for
>>> example sqlcipher passwords.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Dominik Schürmann
>>>
>>>
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