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Samsung Screwed Up Encryption on 100M Phones
- aborsy 5y agoSo the data in 100M phones was essential stored in plaintext? Amazing! Avoiding nonce reuse is like crypto 101. How come a company such as Samsung could get it wrong?
- pinephoneguy 5y agoGive users root. There's a decent chance they can do things better than the manufacturer.
- type0 5y agoNo way would they do that. But better yet, don't buy Samsung devices.
- JoeyBananas 5y agoIt used to be possible to flash a new OS on Samsung devices that are bought directly from Samsung, don't know if that's still the case
- FrenchAmerican 5y agoList of Samsung devices with LineageOs support: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/#samsung https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/#samsung I have an old Samsung S5 neo working perfectly with Lineage 17.1 eg Android 10.
- Nekhrimah 5y agoIs there an actual list of affected devices anywhere? Or, because this is software, is it effectively every Samsung Galaxy phone within a date range?
- WhyNotHugo 5y agoGee, why do companies insist on keeping source for such critical systems SECRET to such an extreme? They're not even inventing anything new; they're using standard techniques, and using them wrong.