AMIRITE? :sweaty:
No its not easy to reverse engineer. Its completly encrypted
Will you opt out?No, it's only encrypted in the .xap you download from store. When you install the app, everything is unencrypted. That's why MS does not allow apps to be installed on SD Card in the first place and that's why MS provides the choice for developers to opt out of this feature.
Will you opt out?
I wonder if developers will now go and make their apps to be saved on SD CARD or will it be automatically an option on all apps , I dont know !! ...
Thats just wrong. Its completly encrypted bound to the device and the appNo, it's only encrypted in the .xap you download from store. When you install the app, everything is unencrypted. That's why MS does not allow apps to be installed on SD Card in the first place and that's why MS provides the choice for developers to opt out of this feature.
Thats just wrong. Its completly encrypted bound to the device and the app
Apps on the sd card and apps on the phones memory are stored differently. the apps in the phone are encrypted by bitlocker, so for the code running on it it seems unencrypted. but the data on the sd card is encrypted each app differently.
No, it's only encrypted in the .xap you download from store. When you install the app, everything is unencrypted. That's why MS does not allow apps to be installed on SD Card in the first place and that's why MS provides the choice for developers to opt out of this feature.
That brings up a bigger question. Will Microsoft encrypt the storage, like if they used like a program files\ directory and set crazy permissions on it.? Or even partition a % of the drive for applications?
If Microsoft didn't do something like that, offering this feature would be almost worthless as every dev of a good app/game would block this feature. I am sure your free apps and games would allow it but, any big game or app, that you would WANT to install on the SD would be blocked.
So, this could be a bigger problem....What is the point of a feature if no one supports it ?
Well given you obtain the unencrypted xap from SD Card, the users that you distribute the xap to still need dev unlocked phones to sideload the xap. That, or you make a throw-away dev account to upload the unencrypted xap as a hidden beta app so that every person who signs up for your beta testing list can download and use.
Edit: currently, unecrypted xaps can be obtained fairly easily if you have an interop-unlocked Samsung device. This only makes obtaining the unencrypted xaps easier.