Progress on Encryption with Waydroid
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Hello there!
As many of you might know, 24.04-1.0 on the Fairphone 4 launched with filesystem encryption that conflicted with Waydroid. In the meantime I've successfully been able to bring fscrypt policy v2 support to the Fairphone 4 kernel, meaning that this issue will soon be a thing of the past.
I announce this here to educate people who already encrypted their devices. Phones with v1 policies will have to be wiped (or reset back to normal via some advanced Terminal/adb/ssh trickery) because only one type of policy version can be supported at a time.
Should you be interested in encryption while being able to use Waydroid, then wait for a while. I will push the changes once I feel comfortable I am not badly surprising users who didn't get the memo yet.
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@fredldotme
Hello Alfred.
Excellent news!
Thank you for this improvement (at least it is for Waydroid users
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Regards -
Even better news: The wipe won't be needed.
Existing v1 policies continue working and should even be compatible with Waydroid once they're stored in the filesystem keyring. Even if they're not, that's not a blocker for v2 to land early, as existing users can enjoy their devices with the same feature set as before.
I'll go ahead and merge this.
