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> Don’t the modern Android phones with Trusted Execution Environment do about the same?

Not from what I've been able to determine doing some research today. Or at leaast they're very poor at advertising it if they do.

Samsung KNOX uses the ARM TrustedZone to provide remte-attestation of running software, but I can't see anything similar to Apple's Secure Enclave for filesystem encryption keys.

If anyone does know an Android phone that does this properly, please let me know and I'll buy two this week. I am very impressed at the engineering Apple have built in this regard.




They probably mean this. https://source.android.com/security/encryption/

Pretty sure anything made in the last few years has had a secure element because you needed it for Google Wallet. That might have changed for Android Pay though.




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