Messages in this thread | | | From | Richard Weinberger <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] fscrypt updates for 4.18 | Date | Tue, 05 Jun 2018 19:05:52 +0200 |
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Am Dienstag, 5. Juni 2018, 19:02:08 CEST schrieb Theodore Y. Ts'o: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 06:10:24PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: > > That's the question. I understand the use case, but I fear attack scenarios > > where someone manages to downgrade the crypto of my phone. > > This is why I was asking whether Android tells me whether Speck is used or not. > > "it does encryption" is clearly not enough. > > An attack scenario where someone manages to downgrade the crypto of > your phone would require replacing your kernel and your /system > partition --- at which point, you've got other problems. :-)
This means Speck is never enabled at kernel level on non-cheap phones?
Thanks, //richard
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