On 02/14/2014 12:06 PM, Jack Murphy wrote: > > I've considered buying an android smartphone, but I've held off in the past > because the max password length was a crackable mere 16 characters in length. > > Does anyone here who's running Jelly Bean know what that max password length > for device encryption is these days?
I believe the screen lock is still 16 but you can change (if rooted) to a different (longer?) password for the full disk encryption/boot password. See this post: http://nelenkov.blogspot.com/2012/08/changing-androids-disk-encryption.html and this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.nick.cryptfs.passwdmanager&hl=en I can do more testing in the coming week and let you know. +n -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk