Encrypted-phone setting for ubuntu-touch?

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

On 1 July 2013 16:22, Matt B. <mttbrnsmls at outlook.com> wrote:
> Love the full-phone encryption option available on Android phones. I assume
> ubuntu-touch should have phone encryption option cause of its compatibility
> with the Desktop.
>

Please note, all Ubuntu Touch development discussion happens on
ubuntu-phone mailing list.
You can subscribe here: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone

Android doesn't actually do full-disk encryption. Instead the userdata
partition is encrypted and applications/services that need access to
it are restarted after the volume is unlocked.

> Will Ubuntu-Touch offer users a full-phone-encryption setting when released
> that requires password at every startup/boot?
>

At the moment, initial Ubuntu Touch release might not have that
feature fully integrated but the kernel support to implement ecryptfs
and/or dm-crypt(LUKS) should be there.

Similarly to android, it is currently believed using ecryptfs to
encrypt all user data will offer sufficient privacy at a reasonable
performance.

Regards,

Dmitrijs.