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>they had to back off of the recommendation because full-disk encryption made the devices run like crap. This isn't true of all android, just the N6 which was
by drzaiusapelord 11y ago
>they had to back off of the recommendation because full-disk encryption made the devices run like crap.
This isn't true of all android, just the N6 which was having issues with not having hardware acceleration enabled.
If OEMs want fast crypto they have to do what everyone else does: use methods that work with hardware acceleration and put that hardware in the devices.
- Grazester 11y agoThere was an update, I believe lollipop 5.1 for the Nexus 6 that improved the performance drastically.
- drzaiusapelord 11y ago"Apparently, Google has not merged the various drivers that optimize Qualcomm's QCE module for encryption and decryption into AOSP. The generally-assumed reason is that this code is proprietary. Without these optimizations, the Nexus 6's hardware decryption module on the Snapdragon 805 is essentially hamstrung." http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/11/20/anandtech-posts-side-by-side-nand-performance-for-nexus-6-encrypted-vs-unencrypted-its-not-pretty/ http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/11/20/anandtech-posts-side... I believe the 5.1 update fixed the QCE issue.