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What do the android ids look like? I'm assuming it's just a number, but I don't know how big. The page you linked to says the key is md5(android_id + "seems legit..."). It seems to me like this could potentially be brute forced to find the android_id using a captured encrypted image.


Except for versions 2.2, it appears to be a random 64bit integer:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/Sett...

That would take some time to brute force I guess. Especially if the only way to check each guess is to try and decrypt and look for a valid (part of an) image header.




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