Hiding a value in an Android application

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Published on 2010-03-21T09:20:25Z Indexed on 2010/03/21 9:31 UTC
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Hi,

I need to hide a value in a mobile (Android OS) application. As far as I can see, encrypting the value is of no use as the key to the encryption mechanism must be available to the program and is thus available to an attacker reverse-engineering the code. So, it seems that the only "solution" is to hide the secret value in the application as well as possible, obviously not ideal. Any comments? Am I missing something? If not, what's the best way to hide the value?

Thanks for your ideas! Ewan

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