Introducing Conceal: Efficient storage encryption for Android
Feb 4, 2014Subodh Iyengar
Summary
Introduced Conceal, a set of Java APIs for efficient and lightweight storage encryption on Android. Conceal abstracts cryptographic choices with sensible defaults, uses AES-GCM for authenticated encryption, and reduces the size of OpenSSL dependencies to 85KB. It provides an easy-to-use API for encrypting and decrypting data streams, with a focus on performance and responsible memory usage.
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