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I need to hide the password in the source, what are the possible methods to obfuscate the password in order to reduce the risk of decompilation?
e.g.
final String password = "secret";
First, I wouldn’t name my variable
password.Second, I wouldn’t keep it in raw format, but encode it.
Third, I’d use a
char[]instead ofString(because strings reside in the string pool).Of course the best option would be to not keep it in the code at all.