Android uses filesystem-based full disk encryption. Every block of data and metadata is encrypted with the modern implementation of this. It's simply using ext4/f2fs for FDE. They refer to it as file-based encryption to differentiate it from dm-crypt. You're misinterpreting what this means.
eylenburg
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7 months ago
Android uses filesystem-based full disk encryption. Every block of data and metadata is encrypted with the modern implementation of this. It's simply using ext4/f2fs for FDE. They refer to it as file-based encryption to differentiate it from dm-crypt. You're misinterpreting what this means.