What's up with Google's secret signed time “CheckGoogleSignedTime”

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by curiouslyme • 9 years ago

2 4 9 years ago

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There are literally only 1-2 references to this - in a histogram xml - on the web when I search.

What is it? Where can I read more?

ramshanker• 9 years ago

Something to do with shiny new database of Google.

curiouslyme2• 9 years ago

The database that assumes people access google from multiple different time frames?

ryanpetrich• 9 years ago

This appears to be the metric that Chrome for Android uses to track how long it takes to verify code signing on downloaded APK's. Or possibly does, rather—open source Chromium doesn't reference the metric at all and it would take decompiling Chrome for Android to know for certain if it's used there or not.

curiouslyme2• 9 years ago

Look at the context. I think google is not trusting ntp or the client system time.

Histogram: Android.StrictMode.CheckGooglePlayServicesTime recorded 15 samples, mean = 4.5 (flags = 0x1) 0 ... 2 ------------------------------------------------O (4 = 26.7%) {0.0%} 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------O (6 = 40.0%) {26.7%} 4 ------------O (1 = 6.7%) {66.7%} 5 ------------O (1 = 6.7%) {73.3%} 6 ... 8 ------------O (2 = 13.3%) {80.0%} 10 ... 14 ----O (1 = 6.7%) {93.3%} 17 ...

Histogram: Android.StrictMode.CheckGoogleSignedTime recorded 1 samples, mean = 256.0 (flags = 0x1) 0 ... 226 ------------------------------------------------------------------------O (1 = 100.0%) {0.0%} 268 ...

What's up with Google's secret signed time “CheckGoogleSignedTime”

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