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What is the best way to provide secure back-end support for an android app? What sort of secure channel? Shared secret? over HTTP/S?
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This is a very general open question
What is the best way to provide secure back-end support for an android app? What sort of secure channel? Shared secret? over HTTP/S?
Android has allot of issues with HTTPS (worked out around 2.3, for what i’ve seen). The best solution, i think, it would be to manually encrypt data all the time. And a couple of crypto libs are 2.x, so depending on what you are targeting it might truelly be “manually”. AES?