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What's up with Google's secret signed time “CheckGoogleSignedTime”
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?
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- ramshanker 9y agoSomething to do with shiny new database of Google.
- curiouslyme 9y agoThe database that assumes people access google from multiple different time frames?
- ryanpetrich 9y agoThis 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.
- curiouslyme 9y agoLook 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 ...