[android-security-discuss] Re: Secure Android apps necessarily native?

2011-05-16 Thread Twinkie
Thanks for your answers. It is much clearer to me now that native vs Dalvik does not make much of a difference in this scenario. On May 13, 11:47 am, Tim str...@gmail.com wrote: FWIW, people may not have noticed that the latest IDA update has provided Dalvik support, so it's pretty easy to open

[android-security-discuss] Re: Secure Android apps necessarily native?

2011-05-13 Thread Twinkie
I was hoping to find a whitepaper/online article/book to bolster my argument that an All-Dalvik app is as good security-wise as an app with sensitive logic hidden in native code. I know with effort either can be decompiled, the aim is to make that effort as much as possible. So my original

Re: [android-security-discuss] Re: Secure Android apps necessarily native?

2011-05-13 Thread Chris Palmer
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Twinkie ns1...@gmail.com wrote: I was hoping to find a whitepaper/online article/book to bolster my argument that an All-Dalvik app is as good security-wise as an app with sensitive logic hidden in native code. Some of my favorite examples of why native code

Re: [android-security-discuss] Re: Secure Android apps necessarily native?

2011-05-13 Thread Tim
FWIW, people may not have noticed that the latest IDA update has provided Dalvik support, so it's pretty easy to open up both a native library and the dalvik counter part. -Tim Strazzere Security Engineer Lookout Mobile Security On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Chris Palmer