With Android 5.0, attempts to roll out ... 512MB of RAM or less —and it supports a secure lock screen, it must also support full-disk encryption. And if the device has what’s known as Advanced ...

The company requires Android devices capable of decent ... 512MB of RAM — and supports a secure lock screen, it must also support full-disk encryption of both the application data and shared ...

Privacy advocates take note: Android's full-disk encryption just got dramatically easier to defeat on devices that use chips from semiconductor maker Qualcomm, thanks ...

In section 9.9 on Full-Disk Encryption, it says: Optional for Android device implementations without a lock screen. If the device implementation has a lock screen, the device MUST support full ...

Now, with Marshmallow, Google is mandating full disk encryption ... Android Compatibility Definition Document for Marshmallow states: If the device implementation supports a secure lock screen ...

Full-disk encryption, which is supported on devices running Lollipop on up, is supposed to protect files on the storage drive. Android uses a randomly chosen 128-bit device encryption key that is ...

We may have thought that Android is just as safe as the iPhone ... and then decrypt a target device with ease. Full-disk encryption (FDE) is supposed to encrypt the device with 128-bit device ...

resides on Android devices that run Android 5.0 Lollipop and above. The flaw, which made Full Disk Encryption susceptible to Brute-Force attacks, had to do with TrustZone kernel flaws on Qualcomm ...

The full-disk encryption feature on Android devices relies on a randomly generated key called the device encryption key (DEK). This key is itself encrypted with another key derived from the user ...