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		harryf on July 13, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Logins are Dead, and Mobile Killed Them We began with using the device ID but of course we've had to change given that's deprecated - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6993325/uidevice-uniqueid... - iOS6 seems to have perfect answers here - we're not interested in IDs you can share between apps - this is for our app only.

andor on July 13, 2012 [–]

You could generate a random number, let's call it a "cookie", and hand that to the device after a successful handshake.

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