On Wed, 01 Sep 2021 11:31:47 +0000 Fil Lupin via Replicant <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, Hi, > after reading the docs, especially NIST and Samsung, I realized that > encryption follows the same standard described so it should be seen > the same way other phone are seen. I tried again to decrypt the phone > and it works! > > I'll look at the few apps I installed before the crash to identify if > one of them causes the crash. > > Thank you again for the docs links, Thanks a lot for all these infos on how to do it and for reporting the fact that it works!!! It's super important as before we didn't know if it was even possible for users with the password to actually recover their data if they encrypted it, we only hoped / supposed that it was possible. For instance I personally didn't use encryption and even advocated against it in this case precisely because of that issue as I was worried that users (me included) could end up in situations where we would completely loose access to our data. Even without encryption I sometime had to recover data because I messed up with system application signing keys, and it took me quite some time to get familiar with the Android security model (hopefully I wrote some wiki articles about it along the way). So we know know it's at least possible to recover, and we know a way that could work, as it worked for you, though it seems to still be quite technical and not that reliable (as you had to try twice). With Replicant >= 11 we need to switch encryption to something way more standard that works with cryptsetup and if possible udisks2 too to avoid all this mess. In any case I also think that It would be super useful if someone (you or someone else reading this mail) would create a wiki article with at least a pointer to this thread or some information on how to recover that data if time permits that. Thanks again for the report about it and trying ways to recover your data. Denis.
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