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Android

Posted by Nidhi Saini
Nidhi Saini
2,627 Points

Ribbit App: How to encrypt/decrypt the username, password?

Any suggestions?

1 Answer

Paul Stevens
Paul Stevens
4,125 Points
Paul Stevens
Paul Stevens
4,125 Points

Hello,

Sounds like an interesting addition to the app. I haven't thought about doing that, but would be interested as well. Would maybe have Encrypt and Decrypt methods that modify a string passed to them and then return the encrypted/decrypted string. What level of encryption would you want? You could maybe read the ascii code of each character in the string and modify it based on a set rule, or simply have a method that swaps characters (A=5, B=# etc). Not very strong encryption though. If I experiment with it I will post in here. Meanwhile look forward to any suggestions from other people.

Paul :)

Here's a link to some encryption in Java. I think I need a bit of time to read and hope to understand it though. lol :)

https://code.google.com/p/aes-encryption-samples/wiki/HowToEncryptWithJava