Author: Andrew Heinzman / Source: How-To Geek
Low-resource Android phones and IoT devices don’t have the processing power to use modern encryption services, which makes them vulnerable to hacking. That’s why Google is introducing Adiantum, a super-fast encryption standard for low-resource Android devices.
Popular Android phones, like the Google Pixel or anything from the Samsung Galaxy line, are built around the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). With the AES, all of the information on your phone is encrypted and only verified users can access the data. But a lot of Android phones and smart devices can’t use the AES because they don’t have enough processing power to quickly encrypt and decrypt information. Plus, they usually don’t have built-in security features, like fingerprint scanners or iris scanners. This leaves low-resource Android devices, including smart watches and IOT products, very easy to compromise.
As you may know, Android is the leading OS in developing countries. It’s free to use, it already has a lot of apps, and it’s supported on lower end devices. Google has even made a point to create the Android Go OS, which is optimized for low-resource smartphones. This is genuinely a great thing,…
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