Android :: How Are Security Credentials / Passwords Stored On Phones?
Sep 1, 2010
How are security credentials/passwords stored on android phones? Are they encrypted or in other way secured in case of i.e. theft, or do I need third-party applications to secure my phone?For example, if my telephone gets stolen, would it be possible to easily get access to stored browser passwords, my google password, app passwords (e.g. login to cloud services).Are these in some way encrypted and tied to PIN, unlock code or other are they completely "in the open"?
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Nov 9, 2010
Fielding questions from our IT dept around security and I didn't know this one off hand. Can anyone provide insight as to how credentials are stored in Android OS? (hashed, encrypted etc.
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Jan 2, 2010
I got the solution of get back to the first activity by pressing previous button without changing data of first activity. Now, the user will enter his credentials. When he click to proceed further, the credential details will directly go to the server and server gives response with the cookie and that cookies should be store in my phone for the usage for the future. It means that when the user again run the application he should directly logged in into the application, e.g., www.mail.yahoo.com.
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Jan 11, 2010
Im' looking to backup certain parts of my phone in case of a firmware upgrade goes haywire. Also, those are the things i want to keep... I'm looking for a way to save my text messages, my spelling dictionary and the browsers stored passwords aswell as the bookmarks. I know there are apps that does this, but I'm intrested in the "manual" way. anyone who can fill me in which directories to backup?
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Jan 13, 2010
so anyone find a security app for our phones? I found mobile defense, but i'm curious what others use? I'm looking for something to:
- find my phone if I lose it
- lock it remotely if it gets lost
- etc.
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Jun 5, 2010
I remember all the ruckus about security concerns for jailbroken iPhones, and after talking to a friend with one of these devices, I began to wonder if there were any similar concerns I should have with a rooted Droid?
1) Is it more important now to have a "pattern-protected" lock screen?
2) Do I need to create a unique password for SU access?
3) Do I need to be more concerned malware or data swiping from market apps?
I love my recently rooted Droid but assume that "with great power, comes great responsibility." Is my assumption correct, or do I need not be concerned?
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Apr 5, 2010
I have a Web View. I'd like to show some page from my server, but I require some basic authentication. Is there a way I can specify basic auth credentials when calling Web View.load Data() somehow? I can do this on i phone with the equivalent web view class, thinking maybe same is possible with android?
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Jul 29, 2009
Is it currently possible for developers to access account credentials, for specific services, namely Google Reader?
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Aug 19, 2010
I´m having trouble using .NET Web Services with the Android Platform because the web service i want to consume is locked behind Windows (NTLM) authentication.
How can i to use NTLM authentication with an HttpClient request in a android application?
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Sep 6, 2010
Having recently had to reenable a mail account, and I was asked for my credentials storage password. If now I don't recall ever having set it up.
when I go to configure it asks me for the current password before allowing me to art and new one.. given I have not set a credentials storage password before, what should I be ntering? I is there a default credentials storage password?
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Mar 8, 2010
Is it possible in Android to programmatically send an email using the phone's associated GMail credentials? I can send an email when I explicitly provide the username and password, but I was hoping to leverage the Google account already associated with the phone. Note that I don't need to actually access the username or password; I just want to leverage this information indirectly to send email.
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Jun 25, 2010
I can clear data or uninstall the app, but it never again asks for permission. I'm having trouble tracking down a bug because I can only test the bug conditions once per phone.
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Oct 29, 2012
Im using Jelly Bean. I have a ton of "trusted credentials" which i dont know where they came from. (a few are in another language, which makes me concerned). I would like to clear them all out, but doing them one by one would be extremly tedious and time consuming. I see their is an option to remove all certificates, however it is disabled/grayed out.
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Jul 24, 2010
I need to save my bank account numbers, passwords and some credit card numbers. I do not need an app that is all that high tech and complicated. I would just like something that is protected via a password so that if my phone is lost/stolen the finder cannot access this information. I tried Keepass but I didn't really like it as I was unable to change the entry fields, ect. It would be nice to have the ability to have this information backed up somewhere.
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Jun 1, 2010
On my Blackberry I had an app to save all my passwords and credentials and then open them up when I wanted to. It had its own master password.
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Jan 27, 2010
I am very skeptical about using outside programs that did not come program with my Droid. When I click to use Better Keyboard, it states that certain things I type, such as passwords can be "recorded." Has there ever been any reports of Better Keyboard stealing passwords or whatnot? I feel 100% safe with the pre-loaded software, but with programs on the app store I am scared to use anything that I enter person information, such as credit cards. How safe can this program be?
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Mar 5, 2010
Many of my users have requested a password protection for various data elements in my database. Unfortunately, one of my existing features is backing up the database to a public location (SD Card) for data redundancy, so my database isn't secure.
So my question is two-fold.
How can I encrypt or secure a database on android?
How can I store user created passwords on the device in a secure, inaccessible way.
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Oct 9, 2010
I currently use about 6 or 7 different passwords or pin numbers and often forgoet them.
Is there an app in which i can save all of my passwords for various things and then have one password for that app?
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Nov 20, 2011
My GF is getting a new phone and we are having real trouble remembering her Google mail password!
We have tried all the recovery options on-line, but Google are pretty useless at recovering passwords and its driving me insane!
Now, on her old phone, it all still works, and Im just wondering if there is anyway at all as to recover or dig out the password from in the phone somewhere!
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Jul 5, 2010
I have a Droid Eris. I've used eBuddy off and on for the last 3 or 4 months and really liked it. I just had to have my handset replaced so I was about to download eBuddy again. But when I went to read the commnets, I saw a bunch about eBuddy stealing FaceBook passwords. Is this true? What is the best way to investigate something like that? I would really like to keep using eBuddy.
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Feb 7, 2009
I'm implementing a feature that requires a password, is it safe to store using SharedPreferences.Editor? Is there another recommended way for storing passwords?
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Oct 29, 2010
The place where is live is full of wifi connections and i receive more than 5 wifi networks there. Now, the problem is all are secure by passwords and whenever i try to connect, they ask for some key.How can i hack them to run free internet on my fone?
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Aug 4, 2010
Steel on my Phone (Hero) doesnt seem to save passwords for internet website, I have to log in every time to FB, forums etc. I have Save Passwords activated in Setting/Privacy but no luck.
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Jan 28, 2012
Android browser passwords, where are they stored? I need one that I've forgotten. I'm using 2.3.4 and ES File Explorer. ADR6300
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Sep 5, 2010
Is there an app that lets you easily move your apps and info from an old phone to a new one?
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Dec 6, 2008
My browser got a bit out of whack (for some reason the default Google search page stopped displaying the search field). Also the 'data' was taking up almost 10MB and I'm running low on application disk space (dammit they have to find a way to let us store apps on our sdcards) Anyway.. I did a "clear data" thing on the browser, thinking this would only clear temporary internet files, but it reset everything (wiped out my favorites and saved passwords.
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Sep 9, 2009
In my app, I'm taking advantage of a web-based API (the Sunlight Labs API) that requires an API Key.The project is also open source, hosted on Github. I want to avoid committing my API key into the codebase.I'd be fine with creating some other .xml file of special string values, and git-ignoring that file (while providing a .xml.example file to copy into its place), but I don't know the best way of doing that with the Android SDK.
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Aug 13, 2013
few months ago I read somewhere that android stores the wifi passwords in plain text (seems to be known since 2010:[URL] Because I don't want my wifi password to be stored that way, I searched for a way to store the wpa passphrase. This wasn't difficult, because android usese wpa_supplicant, means I just had to find out my passphrase and replace the plain key in /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf with it. Everything still works fine and my phone is able to connect to wifi.
Now my question is: is there a way to store every new wifi password this way? It's annoying to have to edit the wpa_supplicant.conf file manually. One problem is, that it seems like android doesn't have the wpa_passphrase binary included, even if the source code seems to exist in the wpa_supplicant repository ( [URL] how to build the code (I'm not familiar with the ndk), I could try writing an app, which replaces all plain text passwords with the passphrases. But it would be awesome, if it were possible to integrate this feature in a custom rom, so no more passwords are stored plain text.
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Aug 23, 2010
Lately I've been noticing my Evo won't remember any passwords. For example I will log in on this site and checker the box that says "remember me". But if I leave or close this site and come back later I have to login again. It's been doing that on other sites as well. I noticed that I haven't even been getting the pop up that asks me if I want to remember the password. Any ideas?
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Jun 24, 2010
I was just having one of those moments of thought about switching my phone from an Incredible to the Droid X, still tossing the idea around, but say I do....what happens to the apps that I bought on the Incredible...would they be useable on say a newer Android based phone?
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