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ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking

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Google to Encrypt Android Cloud Backups With Your Lock Screen Password

October 17, 2018 by Nishit Darade 1 Comment

Google to Encrypt Android Cloud Backups With Your Lock Screen Password

– Swati Khandelwal

In an effort to secure users’ data while maintaining privacy, Google has announced a new security measure for Android Backup Service that now encrypts all your backup data stored on its cloud servers in a way that even the company can’t read it.

Starting with Android Pie, Google is going to encrypt your Android device backup data in the following way:

Step 1: Your Android device will generate a random secret key (not known to Google).

Step 2: The secret key will then get encrypted using your lock screen PIN/pattern/passcode (not known to Google).

Step 3: This passcode-protected secret key will then securely sent to a Titan security chip on Google’s servers.

Reference: https://thehackernews.com/2018/10/android-cloud-backup.html

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  1. Xinteng Chen says

    October 17, 2018 at 3:08 pm

    Hi Nishit

    This is a good information for us. It is important to backup the information for the devices. It will prevent the information from losing. In addition, the security of information backup should also be ensured. Encryption of the backup information by lock screen password is easier to use, because Google does not know the password . It improve the security level because the unknown by the third party.

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