Comment Re:Don't use a google account with Android. (Score 1) 126
And if you think I'd ever willingly put non encrypted data in any sot of could you're dreaming.
I thought this was about ON THE HANDSET encryption?
Which leads you to the key hiding problem.... Keys need to be plain text to be used, so they are in memory when you have a device that is encrypted. Which leads you to the problem of how to get a sufficiently complex key into the device on boot? Providing keys is where most crypto systems start to break down, and people do stupid stuff like reduce everything to a 4 digit pin or some such nonsense...
Why not generate the key on the device and store it in a secure piece of hardware? That's been a pretty standard solution for a while now. I kind of imagined Android would also do the same.