Questions tagged [disk-encryption]

Because numeric passwords are trivial to bruteforce, I decided to change my encryption password with a passphrase with the following commands: su -c vdc cryptfs changepw newpass To my horror, I discovered upon rebooting that Lollipop only offers a…

So let's assume I am on Android 9 and have the encrypted FDE /data partition and the full /system partition - except for locksettings.db. I also know the pass code used to decrypt/unlock the device after rebooting. On a fresh installation it looks…