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Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] dm-crypt on Android (SD card and h/d)
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 Guess I'm wondering if there was an attempt to setup a partition that
was fully encrypted and a boot partition that is not, where the user can
enter a passphrase,


eh....guess i'm a year late:  
http://androidvoid.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/android-encryption-using-cryptsetup-and-luks/

Should be interesting to see this implemented commercially though


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] dm-crypt on Android (SD card and h/d)
From: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
To: Ali Khalfan <akhalfan@indiana.edu>
CC: dm-crypt@saout.de
Date: Thu 14 Oct 2010 03:19:04 PM EST
> On 10/14/2010 07:40 PM, Ali Khalfan wrote:
>> Does anybody know about any serious consideration of implementing
>> LUKS+dm-crypt on the Android operating system.  Reading, the specs of
>> Android, would seem to indicate that this is a very feasible option.
> AFAIK Android is already using dmcrypt.
> (It's based on Linux kernel so what you want to port? It's already there:)
>
> Milan