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Windows Phone and Hardcoding Values

Let us say that I have a Windows Phone application. If I hardcode a private key in the Windows Phone application, can people extract it once the application is released to the public on the Windows ...
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Do the popular smartphone operating system have a cryptographically secure random source? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Do mobile OS’s provide crypto-quality randomness? Linux and Mac OS X has /dev/urandom, Windows has CryptGenRandom. Do iOS and Android have a similar way to generate ...
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Which mobile phone OS implements or plan to implement data protection using keys derived from passwords per NIST SP800-132?

NIST has released Special Publication 800-132: Recommendation for Password-Based Key Derivation which is meant for protection of stored data using encryption keys derived from user password. This ...
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Do secure phone lines exist?

I could be out of context here about security, but , I would like to know if phone lines or phone calls over VOIP could be made secure . I know that Skype and other VOIP service providers have to ...