Android High Performance Programming

Encrypted communication

We can never stress enough how important it is to use an encrypted channel of communication when creating web services and communicating them with an application.

Initially, it was intended as a protocol to exchange documents and information between scientific institutions, so security was not an important point at that time.

The Internet evolved pretty quickly, and the initially limited HTTPs were suddenly facing millions of users interacting between them. There are tons of resources to discuss SSL and how the encryption is performed. For the purpose of this book, we will mention that the communications under HTTPS (which stands for HTTP Secure, or HTTP over SSL) are generally protected against man-in-the-middle attacks ...