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Hardware-accelerated disk encryption in Android 5.1
In a previous post we looked at disk encryption enhancements introduced in Android 5.0. That article was written based on the Lollipop preview release, before the platform source code was available,...
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Keystore redesign in Android M
Android M has been announced, and the first preview builds and documentation are now available. The most visible security-related change is, of course, runtime permissions, which impacts almost all...
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Decrypting Android M adopted storage
One of the new features Android M introduces is adoptable storage. This feature allows external storage devices such as SD cards or USB drives to be 'adopted' and used in the same manner as internal...
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Password storage in Android M
While Android has received a number of security enhancements in the last few releases, the lockscreen (also know as the keyguard) and password storage have remained virtually unchanged since the 2.x...
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After discussing credential storage and Android's disk encryption, we'll now look at another way to protect your secrets: the embedded secure element (SE) found in recent devices. In the first post of...
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Android secure element execution environment
In the previous post we gave a brief introduction of secure element (SE) support in mobile devices and showed how to communicate with the embedded SE in Android 4.x We'll now proceed to sending some...
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Exploring Google Wallet using the secure element interface
In the first post of this series we showed how to use the embedded secure element interface Android 4.x offers. Next, we used some GlobalPlatform commands to find out more about the SE execution...
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Emulating a PKI smart card with CyanogenMod 9.1
We discussed the embedded secure element available in recent Android devices, it's execution environment and how Google Wallet makes use if it in the last series of articles. We also saw that unless...
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Android online account management
Our recent posts covered NFC and the secureelement as supported in recent Android versions, including community ones. In this two-part series we will take a completely different direction: managing...
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Single sign-on to Google sites using AccountManager
In the first part of this series, we presented how the standard Android online account management framework works and explored how Google account authentication and authorization modules are...
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