[android-developers] Re: Secure data storage (rooted phones)

2009-07-20 Thread John Smith
2009/7/21 Markus Junginger mar...@junginger.biz Any hints and ideas on this? If you have to ask such a question you probably aren't qualified to implement a solution. I'm not trying to insult you, but it takes a special type of mindset to go down this path properly, and then years give or

[android-developers] Re: Secure data storage (rooted phones)

2009-07-20 Thread Markus Junginger
Time and resources are limited, of course. :) To further clarify the objective: a single file should be encrypted. The other important point is, that there should be no user interaction like password entry. Given this, I guess a secure solution is impossible on rooted phones in a strict sense

[android-developers] Re: Secure data storage (rooted phones)

2009-07-20 Thread John Smith
2009/7/21 Markus Junginger mar...@junginger.biz Given this, I guess a secure solution is impossible on rooted phones in a strict sense (again, I am no security expert) because you can reverse engineer code and access all data. The question is if there are means to increase security to a level