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Ted F.7
9 years agoNew member | Level 1
Access Tokens, Fiddler, Security
Hi,
Someone uses Fiddler to get my access token which is normally hidden from our apps users. Don't they now have access to my Dropbox through the API?
I read some of the other posts about this ...
Richard P.
Super User alumni
9 years agoSo it appears that my initial concern is moot. Agreed?
I can decompile your app, or attach a debugger at run time, and sniff the key that way.
With a temporary untrusted certificate, Fiddler can decode some SSL but from what I see, you can make it so your stream cannot be decoded this way and I was unable to use this technique to view, say an upload of files, the plain text.
With a temporary, untrusted certificate, Fiddler can decode *all* SSL unless the app is specifically looking for a pinned certificate. Which means you need to do a lot more in your app than simply opening a connection.
See the following thread for info on cert pinning, and what certs to pin and what not to pin.
But pinning still doesnt get you around my first point.
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