[android-developers] Re: Password Security / Encryption / Decompile?

2010-02-03 Thread WC
Thanks for all the info, very helpful. One question. The files to be sent don't contain sensitive or private information that would need encryption or secure transfer (they're recipes, grocery lists and other non-interesting stuff). It's the user name and password for the ftp site that I'm

[android-developers] Re: Password Security / Encryption / Decompile?

2010-02-02 Thread Bob Kerns
First, I hope you're not actually talking about FTP. FTP is not secure, no matter WHAT you do. SFTP -- FTP over SSH -- on the other hand, can be done securely. This is one of the use cases for using certificates. Rather than a username/password in the code, you embed an X.509 certificate, which