Android supports the Advanced Encryption Standard when encrypting phone storage but this requires specialized hardware to be fast and efficient. That's no problem for mid to high-range phones ...

In file-based encryption mode, the file contents are encrypted using AES-XTS, while file names are encrypted using the AES-CBC-CTS (ciphertext stealing) mode. For Android, the keys protecting CE and ...

Google unveiled today the new Adiantium storage encryption method for devices without cryptographic acceleration and running Android 9 or later on processors which do not support AES or other ...

Android has required that smartphones support storage encryption since Android 6 in 2015, but low-end devices have remained exempt because the demand would significantly impact performance.

Shortly after the announcement of iOS 8 in 2014, Google made headlines by saying that it would make full-device encryption mandatory for new Android devices running version 5.0. It then made more ...

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As such, Google has provided an exemption on the Android 6.0+ rule to require storage encryption. To solve this problem, we have designed a new encryption mode called Adiantum.

Google has a new form of encryption called Adiantum that’s designed to bring storage encryption to cheaper Android devices without impacting performance. Currently, devices such as low-powered ...