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Hell yes, my number one most desired feature for android is proper strong encryption of the whole system. I'm reticent to cache any passwords on there or store
by metabrew 16y ago
Hell yes, my number one most desired feature for android is proper strong encryption of the whole system.
I'm reticent to cache any passwords on there or store useful but sensitive data on my phone since I can't easily encrypt it (unlike my laptop).
- trotsky 16y agoFile based encrypters might do your sensitive stuff fairly easy - there are a lot of options out there. I understand the ease of system encryption, but then your files are still available to other apps/exploits or if the attacker roots the phone. For instance the iphone AES-256 is easy enough to jb and get at a full unencrypted fs even without knowing the PIN.
- cookiecaper 16y agoIf you can get around full-disk encryption by a jailbreak or rooting, then it's obviously not actually full-disk encryption. LUKS et al should be ported to Android. Does anyone know how hard that would be? Android kernel is not massively different from plain Linux, so it shouldn't be too difficult to build the modules needed for full-disk encryption, right?