- I'm under the impression that an encrypted media card is tied to the specific device ID. ONLY that device can un-encrypt the SD.
It's very secure but this has burned me in the past. Only encrypt your SD card if it's absolutely necessary.
Posted via my beautiful Q10akavbb likes this.06-14-14 01:14 AMLike 1 -
Try it and report back. No guarantees of anything on my end though.
Posted via my beautiful Q1006-14-14 09:39 AMLike 0 -
The encryption is at the file system level, not on each individual file, so as you copy or backup things off of the SD card through Link's drive mappings, you don't have to worry about encryption following the files.
The encryption key lives on the device, and as best I can tell there is no way to move the key to a new device (through a device backup and restore). So if you move your encrypted SD card to a new device, you will need to reformat it. I am pretty sure the BlackBerry OS now thankfully warns people of this when you turn on SD card encryption because I am not sure the warning was in 10.0 but I could be wrong) .
My 64GB SD card took over two days to decrypt in my Z30, and it was painful not only in the delay but the increased battery drain through the day as the decryption ran in the background. Granted that was when the card was formatted FAT32, as ExFAT might be faster (not sure what file system you are using).
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Posted via my beautiful Q1006-14-14 05:13 PMLike 0 -
If you try to bypass the phone by plugging in the card to another computer, then it is unreadable.
Posted via CB10 via Z30STA100-5/10.2.1.317506-14-14 07:10 PMLike 0 - Regarding BB10, if the media card is encrypted and somebody steals the media card, would it be unreadable? To most people anyway, without having the knowledge to try and crack it? Having a removable media card is the only flaw I see in the security that BB10 brings so I've decided to turn encryption on. Just backing up and syncing atm.
Thanks06-21-14 03:55 AMLike 0 - Regarding BB10, if the media card is encrypted and somebody steals the media card, would it be unreadable? To most people anyway, without having the knowledge to try and crack it? Having a removable media card is the only flaw I see in the security that BB10 brings so I've decided to turn encryption on. Just backing up and syncing atm.
Thanks
Essentially the key used to decrypt the volume is only stored in the OS of the device that encrypted the card. That key is protected by a mandatory device password.
That's why if you wipe the device you lose access tot the encrypted card, because the OS where the key is stored is wiped (along with the key).
Posted via CB10 via Z30STA100-5/10.2.1.317506-21-14 06:43 AMLike 0 - The only problem with the encrypted and card is that it seems to take longer to take a photograph (I don't know if this has been fixed in 10.2 as this was the original problem when I got my z10 last year at launch) .
What I do is to just back up occasionally after un encrypting my card though..
Posted via CB1006-21-14 08:27 AMLike 0 - Cheers. Any idea How good the encryption is if somebody had physical access to your media card and wanted to decrypt it?
Also do you need to decrypt the media card before doing an OTA official OS update? Or if you update OTA does the OS keep the encryption key and encryption can be left on?
Thanks
Posted via CB1006-21-14 09:30 AMLike 0 - Cheers. Any idea How good the encryption is if somebody had physical access to your media card and wanted to decrypt it?
Also do you need to decrypt the media card before doing an OTA official OS update? Or if you update OTA does the OS keep the encryption key and encryption can be left on?
Thanks
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If you are doing a non-destructive update, which an OTA update qualifies as, then no you don't need to decrypt your device or card first as the key used to encrypt both is maintained during the upgrade.
Posted via CB10 via Z30STA100-5/10.2.1.3175Jonny-R likes this.06-21-14 03:24 PMLike 1 - The only problem with the encrypted and card is that it seems to take longer to take a photograph (I don't know if this has been fixed in 10.2 as this was the original problem when I got my z10 last year at launch) .
What I do is to just back up occasionally after un encrypting my card though..
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You don't have to unencrypt your card to back it up. You just have to back it up through Link as that tunnels the connection through your phone which leverages the encryption key in the device OS. This is of course slower than popping the card out of the phone and sticking it into a laptop for a backup, but considering the time it would take to decrypt and then re-encrypt the card after the backup is complete, you are probably better of going through the Link tunnel as it is less steps.
Posted via CB10 via Z30STA100-5/10.2.1.317506-21-14 03:28 PMLike 0 - It meets the rigorous FIPD 140-2 standard, which means it's good enough to protect HIPAA information. It doesn't get much better than that for mobile devices.
If you are doing a non-destructive update, which an OTA update qualifies as, then no you don't need to decrypt your device or card first as the key used to encrypt both is maintained during the upgrade.
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Posted via CB10HotFix likes this.06-21-14 04:32 PMLike 1 -
You can also use Link's less than stellar file syncing capabilities to sync folders from your SD card to your computer. I have used that a lot, because as long as Link is behaving on my computer my phone automatically syncs when I walk in the house at night because it connects to Wifi.
Here is a quick how to I found searching on the Web that looks right at first glance:
http://m-support.verizonwireless.com...5095.tp_2.html
Posted via CB10 via Z30STA100-5/10.2.1.3175akavbb likes this.06-22-14 10:13 AMLike 1 - HotFix could you help me working out what's going on?
My device and media card are encrypted. I decided to plug my phone into my laptop to see what happened re USB mass storage. Everything is viewable and nothing is encrypted. I locked the phone, plugged it in, and the drives to both storage areas mapped and I was able to view and transfer files without the phone being unlocked?
How can that be correct behaviour?
Thanks for any help
EDIT: I think it was the setting in Link for "automatically start Link when device connected". This was authenticating my device without needing to input a password. Seems to be all ok
Posted via CB10Last edited by Jonny-R; 06-22-14 at 12:18 PM.
06-22-14 12:02 PMLike 0 - HotFix could you help me working out what's going on?
My device and media card are encrypted. I decided to plug my phone into my laptop to see what happened re USB mass storage. Everything is viewable and nothing is encrypted. I locked the phone, plugged it in, and the drives to both storage areas mapped and I was able to view and transfer files without the phone being unlocked?
How can that be correct behaviour?
Thanks for any help
EDIT: I think it was the setting in Link for "automatically start Link when device connected". This was authenticating my device without needing to input a password. Seems to be all ok
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I stopped syncing photos because I use OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive) because it auto syncs my Photos folder for me whenever I am in range of ANY WiFi I have a connection set up on. Cloud based backup of photos from anywhere > local computer WiFi BlackBerry Link sync > nothing.
Posted via CB10 via Z30STA100-5/10.2.1.317506-22-14 01:04 PMLike 0 - When you have your phone connected to your computer either through a USB cable or Wifi, and Link is running, you will see two extra drive letters show up that you can copy files from.
You can also use Link's less than stellar file syncing capabilities to sync folders from your SD card to your computer. I have used that a lot, because as long as Link is behaving on my computer my phone automatically syncs when I walk in the house at night because it connects to Wifi.
Here is a quick how to I found searching on the Web that looks right at first glance:
http://m-support.verizonwireless.com...5095.tp_2.html
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Am I right?
And of course thank you!!!
Posted via CB10 | STL100-2 | Waiting for the mighty Squircle to return.06-22-14 02:06 PMLike 0 -
You are most welcome!
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