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Yes. It requires serious engineering across the OS stack though. Also, it is generally harder and less effective to this retroactively; existing third party app
by mehrdada 11y ago
Yes. It requires serious engineering across the OS stack though. Also, it is generally harder and less effective to this retroactively; existing third party apps may not switch to leverage the new APIs when it is done retroactively. This makes it hard for PC operating systems to effectively adopt it, though I really hope they do it soon.
Right now it seems the low hanging fruit for Android would be to encrypt devices _at all_ (by default). Different classes of encryption is a luxury.
- crazysim 11y agoI did hear they did encrypt by default on the Nexus 6. Unfortunately, it seriously affected performance and was then turned off. I guess this may be due not having a fast hardware encryption path to and from the flash memory. iOS encrypts, even if you don't set a passphrase or something and their security white paper does mention having dedicated hardware to make it seamless.
- andrewpi 11y agoI believe a later software update for the Nexus 6 sped up encryption considerably.