Honeycomb Brings Data Encryption to Android Tablets

As much as we all like to hear about advanced cameras, more memory and faster processors in upcoming tablets, there’s one very important feature – especially to business customers – that’s been lacking from Android tablets so far: data encryption.
This is about to change with Android 3.0 a.k.a. Honeycomb, which brings the option to encrypt all data on the tablet and protect it with a password.
Engadget has spotted the option on Motorola Xoom, but Google claims it’s not a Motorola exclusive, which means it’ll be available on most upcoming Honeycomb-based tablets. The description of the option (see image below) claims you can “encrypt your accounts, settings, downloaded applications and their data, media and other files”.
The encryption process takes an hour or more, but there are still many unknowns about the feature: we don’t know what crypto standard is used for encryption (the iPad uses 256-bit AES hardware-based encryption) and will encrypting the data slow down your tablet and drain more battery in everyday usage.
Image courtesy of Engadget.http://mashable.com/2011/02/03/android-3-0-encryption/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29&utm_content=Twitter

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