Android Data Encryption in depth

Introduction

Following our latest presentation on the Titan M, the security chip made by Google for their Android smartphones, we received a request from someone who had broken their device. While the main SoC appeared to be dead, the Titan M was still working, therefore they were asking if they could recover the data in storage. Sadly, that was not possible, since the main SoC has a critical role in the encryption schema. Still, this question aroused our curiosity and …

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