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The external sd card has me wondering about security since anyone can just pop it out if I lose my phone. Is Android KitKat "encrypt external sd card" a good feature?
I've only had experience on the desktop with Truecrypt and doing it to an external HDD. What I found is if I already have files on there, it takes an extremely long time (days) to encrypt gigs of data.
Is this true for android's encryption? Should I encrypt the volume then put files on there instead (first checkbox)? That was surely a quicker way to keep my files encrypted on the external HDD. Don't really want to experiment on a new card for fear of making it unusable already.
Maybe there are better Play store programs to do this?
I've only had experience on the desktop with Truecrypt and doing it to an external HDD. What I found is if I already have files on there, it takes an extremely long time (days) to encrypt gigs of data.
Is this true for android's encryption? Should I encrypt the volume then put files on there instead (first checkbox)? That was surely a quicker way to keep my files encrypted on the external HDD. Don't really want to experiment on a new card for fear of making it unusable already.
Maybe there are better Play store programs to do this?
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