Google today officially announced a new form of encryption designed to secure data stored on cheap smartphones and other devices with insufficient processing power.
ΠWe must all keep in mind that securing information stored on mobile phones is a burning issue that is of particular concern to the European Union, the United States and other developed Western countries, apparently because users' privacy has been ruthlessly violated. in recent years by many companies that do not do their best to protect the unsuspecting public from cybercriminals.
This is why most Android phones have encrypted data storage as the default feature and in fact, google requires it from all mobile device manufacturers running Android 6.0 and later.
However, there is an exception for phones that have low processing power, because they do not have the ability to run these heavy processes because the device will crash, so Google found the solution through Adiantum that does not need enough processing resources to work.
For those who do not know, because many people in poor countries who do not have the money to buy expensive smartphones choose cheap low-end smartphones that run the lightweight version of Android called Android Go and is specifically designed for low-performance processors, but given that many of these devices have only 1GB of RAM or less, encryption storage is disabled by default so that there are no performance issues on the device.
The ARM Cortex-A7 processor used by some low-end phones does not yet support Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), which is used by Android. And here comes the Adiantum in the middle.
Eugene Liderman, director of mobile security at Google's privacy team, said: effective encryption of stored data locally ".
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