Canonical enables future encrypted storage in Ubuntu for smartphone

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Canonical plans to enable encryption for Ubuntu’s smartphone storage memory, but the feature won’t come until after the 16.04 release at the earliest. The feature is already available in other mobile operating systems.

Developers have bugged the lack of an encryption option on Launchpad and there’s development to follow. In a mailing list, a Canonical developer says the feature is coming, but the team hasn’t set a release date yet.

Ubuntu for desktop has supported storage encryption for more than a decade, but the mobile version of the operating system does not yet have that feature. Other mobile operating systems already have that. In Android 6.0 it is mandatory for new devices, iOS also uses it by default.

The mobile version of the Linux distro, which sometimes still bears the designation Ubuntu Touch, first appeared in smartphones last year, including the bq Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu and the Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition. Last year Canonical added Convergence, the method to use the smartphone as a desktop by connecting a desktop, keyboard and mouse.

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