Don't worry about the terminology -- "ad hoc wifi network" is what you're looking for. I just wanted to figure out what you intended to say.
Hmm, "peer-to-peer" and "sensitive financial data" has me a bit concerned. I don't advocate sending sensitive data, via servers or not, unencrypted. I hope you're using some sort of public key encryption, with a secure key exchange, such as Diffie-Hellman. If all I have to do is eavesdrop on your NFC communications.... (The role of the public key encryption part is to give you a way to strongly identify the recipient you're exchanging the encryption keys with). And recognize that phones can be lost or stolen; that poses an upper limit of how secure they are. In fact, ideally, really sensitive data wouldn't be stored on the phone at all. Seriously, I would not consider an intermediate server to be a security issue in the slightest. The reason is -- you should always assume that the communication itself can be intercepted. If you don't store it on a server temporarily -- the attacker may, so that he can attack it at leisure, with as much computer power as he wants. (That assumes it's only on the server for a short time, as part of the communication process. If you store large amounts of secure communications long-term, you become a whole different type of target). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
