Sunday, March 10, 2013

[ebjbdaax] Pattern lock as encryption key

It should be trivial to allow a pattern as the Android disk encryption password, in addition to the current letter-password or numeric PIN.  Just encode the pattern as digits 1 through 9.  We would need a small change in the boot up decryption dialog to select a pattern to unlock.

(Not necessarily saying a pattern is good idea, given how easily they can be discovered.)

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