In the world of heinous and sophisticated crimes, cryptography is the next-gen solution needed to resolve the concern. Whitebox cryptography combines encryption and obfuscation methods to embed secret keys in application code. The aim is to combine code and key in such a way that an attacker cannot distinguish between the two and the new "white-box" program can be safely executed in an insecure environment.
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First off, before we get into the technical details of attacking applications, a few housekeeping bits must be understood. This blog is aimed at technical individuals that already understand at a basic level Android development and architecture, aiming to give security testers and application developers an insight into the ways an attacker may interrogate code to achieve some form of compromise.
