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amq on June 6, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Being privacy-aware in 2016

All modern CPUs have the AES instruction set, which makes the encryption almost transparent in terms of speed.

lnalx on June 6, 2016 [–]

Mobile phones included ?

floatboth on June 6, 2016 | [–]

ARMv8 phones like Nexus 5X/6P definitely do have AES instructions. These phones in particular have encrypted storage out of the box.

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