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*** Shutting the phone down ensures a better level of security assurance since the encryption is using a strong password | *** Shutting the phone down ensures a better level of security assurance since the encryption is using a strong password | ||
*** Using a PIN for encryption generally renders the encryption useless as those can be cracked in seconds (see for example https://viaforensics.com/viaextract/viaextract-includes-android-encryption-cracking.html ) | *** Using a PIN for encryption generally renders the encryption useless as those can be cracked in seconds (see for example https://viaforensics.com/viaextract/viaextract-includes-android-encryption-cracking.html ) | ||
* Use TRESOR to store the secret key outside RAM. | |||
** See http://www1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/tresor for implementation on ARM. | |||
* ChromeOS uses a slightly different disk encryption mechanism using eCryptFS. | * ChromeOS uses a slightly different disk encryption mechanism using eCryptFS. | ||