UK government is trying to get into iCloud end-to-end encryption. (Again?)
Makes me think about email servers too. Most of my private information is in emails, and not only I use a service where the host machines access the email, so do almost everyone I email to/from.
Crypto instructions have been standard in CPUs for decades now. I don’t know about mobile CPUs specifically, but the AES instructions have been around since 2008.
Yeah but phones have had a problem where using the main chip for encryption would basically use all the battery. For a while Apple was the only one who didn’t have this issue because they included dedicated chips to handle the encryption. So they were even able to jump in to the “whole phone encryption” by default. While android phones had to leave it as a checkbox in settings that would eat your battery.
I just don’t remember if google ever got around to addressing the issue.
This is not true. You may be thinking of the Secure Enclave, which Apple processors have had for a while and acts as a dedicated piece of silicon to protect encryption keys. But pixels have this too, idk about phones with Qualcomm or exynos SOCs but they likely have something similar. Either way it has no impact on battery life and all major smartphones have been capable of encryption for many years
I’ve always Android phones with encryption enabled, since about 2014, and I’ve never noticed any issue, nor had I heard about this before.