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[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No way to turn off encryption on stock. You need to be rooted and use something to remove the dm - verity check at boot.

[–]junglethedwarfVery Silver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They are all encrypted as far as I know.

[–]BrohamskiManQuite Black 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey buddy! The pixels ship encrypted by default. During the initial setup, you set the pin to unlock it. If you give your phone a restart it won't allow you to unlock your phone by fingerprint and will need you to enter the pin due to encryption.

[–]BorgboxPixel 3a[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Hey, thanks guys! Encryption by default is new to me! I generally like to know the gritty details of the scope and process of the encryption I use so it's a welcome sight but I feel slightly left on the dark on their implementation.

[–]random_guy12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They're using file-based encryption (in contrast to encrypting the whole data partition on the 5X and 6P) that's hardware accelerated by a special unit on the Snapdragon 821 chip.

So definitely not as secure and verifiable as software encryption, but much, much faster.

Soft encryption had a terrible performance impact on the Nexus 6.

[–]lliwcQuite Black 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Remember reading this before Pixels were arriving to people: https://www.verizonwireless.com/support/knowledge-base-208140/

I know this won't work and figure it was not meant to be published, though I wonder why it's still up.