MishaalRahman@lemdro.id to Android@lemdro.idEnglish · 1 year agoGoogle should bring Samsung’s Maintenance Mode to Pixel phoneswww.androidcentral.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up145arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squaresomeone_secret@burggit.moelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoPretty much my thoughts, yes. In order for the FDE to have any usefulness, the key has to be derived from a secret that only the user of phone knows (I.e. a secret PIN, password or pattern)
minus-squareMishaalRahman@lemdro.idOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoAndroid devices stopped using FDE a while back. In fact, support for FDE was removed entirely in Android 13.
minus-squaresomeone_secret@burggit.moelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year agoSorry, but that’s not true. While technically true, that full disk encryption doesn’t exist anymore, they use file based encryption which, functionally, is the same thing. Source: https://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-encrypt-android-device-326700/
minus-squareMishaalRahman@lemdro.idOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoFile based encryption is not functionally the same thing. That article you linked oversimplifies how encryption works on Android. The AOSP documentation goes into detail: https://source.android.com/docs/security/features/encryption/file-based I suggest you read this page, or see my other comment which already mentions why FBE is likely not the reason.
Pretty much my thoughts, yes.
In order for the FDE to have any usefulness, the key has to be derived from a secret that only the user of phone knows (I.e. a secret PIN, password or pattern)
Android devices stopped using FDE a while back. In fact, support for FDE was removed entirely in Android 13.
Sorry, but that’s not true. While technically true, that full disk encryption doesn’t exist anymore, they use file based encryption which, functionally, is the same thing. Source: https://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-encrypt-android-device-326700/
File based encryption is not functionally the same thing. That article you linked oversimplifies how encryption works on Android. The AOSP documentation goes into detail: https://source.android.com/docs/security/features/encryption/file-based
I suggest you read this page, or see my other comment which already mentions why FBE is likely not the reason.