Apple adds Uniique Identifier to in-app purchase receipts

Apple has begun adding a new field to its in-app purchase receipts entitled ‘unique_identifier’. The addition of the field was reported by Macrumors, but contrary to its article, it does not appear to contain a Unique Device Identifier (UDID), something that Apple has been instructing developers to move away from.
Instead, the field contains a unique string of numbers that could be any number of things ranging from a randomly generated value that is unique to a device, to a cryptographic hash of the UDID that accomplishes the same thing.
Either way, it’s hard to say at this point whether this has anything to do with the recent in-app purchase bypass, which has allowed over 37,000 free purchases. It’s simply too early to say whether this is related to that, or to a particular new App Store feature for developers that Apple will launch with iOS 6.


Via - TheNextWeb

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