Sunday, September 26, 2010

[android-developers] Re: SQLite Database (secure?)

There is an open source SQLite-crypto package which I've used on
Symbian and seen used on iPhone. But you basically have to load an
entirely new version of SQLite onto the phone, and I suspect that on
Android there's no way to switch it in in place of the existing
version, so it wouldn't interface like the built-in SQL support.
Also, of course, you'd be talking C/C++ native method coding in
buckets.

You can do your own encryption for individual columns, but you then
can't practically index/search on those columns.

On Sep 26, 7:39 pm, William Ferguson <william.ferguson...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> You could always encrypt the data in the database. Seehttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/2203987/android-database-encryption
>
> It would be nice to be able to encrypt the enture DB, but that doesn't
> appear to be possible.
> Seehttp://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=191
>
> On Sep 27, 9:16 am, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 7:10 PM, svebee <sven.kapud...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I just have one simple question, is it possible to extract (and read
> > > records) SQLite Database out of Android application/.apk file/...)?
>
> > > Because I have some important information in it, so I wanna be sure
> > > it's pretty secure (only application has access to it)?
>
> > Users with rooted phones can get access to any files they want.
> > Otherwise, databases in the conventional on-board flash location are
> > secure.
>
> > --
> > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy
>
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